When Hayao Miyazaki was capable of generating crude animation in 2016, his response was blunt: ¡°I am utterly disgusted.¡±

The Studio Ghibli co-founder ¡ª whose films include the 1997 epic ¡°Princess Mononoke¡± and the 2001 Oscar-winning ¡°Spirited Away¡± ¡ª also called the demonstration ¡°an insult to life itself.¡± The remark, delivered with visible contempt, quickly became a rallying cry for skeptics of machine-made art.