Studio Ghibli's Miyazaki blasts animators on NHK over AI-generated 'zombie' clip The Tokyo Reporter

The animation displayed by Kawakami included a sequence where humanoid characters grotesquely contort themselves as they move around by using their heads as feet. "This is the result of teaching it to'move faster,'" Kawakami said. "Basically there's nothing like sensitivity to pain, and it lacks the concept of the head being important, so it's using the head like a foot for movement." The presentation was to showcase efforts by the CGI team at Dwango Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, where Kawakami serves as chairman, in exploring nascent field of image processing using artificial intelligence. Aired on Sunday as part of NHK's documentary series "NHK Special: Hayao Miyazaki -- The One Who Never Ends," the program reveals the decorated animator and director's journey as he takes up animated shorts following his retirement from full-length feature animations in 2013.