You know, I’ve said for a long time that a big problem in the entertainment industry these days is people claw their way in so young and are so afraid to take a break that they have no time to have actual life experiences, so they write about media they’ve seen instead of things they’ve lived-

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And chances are, if they clawed their way in young, nothing worth making particularly moving art about has happened to them.
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I remember at college our head of year used to take people working too hard aside and give them a day off to do something other than art. Usually recommends a walk in a part of town they'd rarely been.
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Oh my god. You have no idea how hard that hits XD
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And you are 100% correct!
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And resting on AI even just for “inspiration” or “reference” purposes really microwaves that problem to the next level, people who hustle so hard that they haven’t had experiences aren’t even just recycling up other people’s experiences anymore, they’re getting a computer to automate the process.
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And considering how many of these Gen-AIs are trained, there's the actual risk of plagiarism...
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Going out and taking some reference photos is such an enormously fulfilling experience. I used to work in this hydro dam when I was 17, obviously it was an extremely foundational experience for me. Actually *being in* this place was worth 1000x to my brain than what looking at the photos now is
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💯💯
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That was the point that Hayao Miyazaki was trying to make in context of that popular 'anime is a mistake' meme. He was observing that the second wave creators that came after Tezuka and his cohorts including himself increasingly based their works on manga and first wave anime they grew up with.
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No idea how much friction there was between himself and his most famous protege who goes by the name Hideaki Anno, but the grumpy old man in him lamented for a while that Anno's generation didn't go outside and touch grass for their inspiration and instead just insularly copied each other.
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