Flipboard Art & Photo Desk<p>There was huge backlash last month when OpenAI announced its new AI image generator and demonstrated it by showing Studio Ghibli-inspired pictures. The company's CEO, Sam Altman, responded to the criticism last Sunday by describing it as "democratization" of art creation. <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@ArtNews" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ArtNews</span></a></span>'s digital director Harrison Jacobs says Altman's missed the point, quoting Ghibli founder Hayao Miyazaki. "I can’t watch this stuff and find [it] interesting. Whoever creates this stuff has no idea what pain is whatsoever. I am utterly disgusted. If you really want to make creepy stuff, you can go ahead and do it. I would never wish to incorporate this technology into my work at all. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.”</p><p><a href="https://flip.it/6FiPYp" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">flip.it/6FiPYp</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Art</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/AIArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AIArt</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/StudioGhibli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StudioGhibli</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/HayaoMiyazaki" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HayaoMiyazaki</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/SamAltman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SamAltman</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/ArtificialIntelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ArtificialIntelligence</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a></p>