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What kind of twisted hell realm are we living in? This image posted by The White House nine days ago depicts a real woman, in handcuffs, crying and being glared at by an ICE agent... using a ChatGPT image filter based on Studio Ghibli movies. Which I'm sure was trained without any regard for copyright or basic human decency. Stop the world, I want to get off.

@therem Community Note: the woman was a fentanyl dealer, was already deported
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@mischievoustomato "Community Note"? I don't know why you think I need more information about the person who was grabbed by ICE. My post was primarily about the grossness of using a Studio Ghibli image filter on this photo.

@therem community note: it's very fucking funny lmfao
@kimapr @therem community note: a lot of people (myself included) laughed at the ghibli memes since they started so it is
@mischievoustomato @therem I don't believe in copyright but you can clearly tell from Miyazakis creative work that he would strongly oppose the use derivatives of his work to mock someone, especially in racist propaganda, even if they did wrong.
You don't need to legislate everything to have common sense, I personally wouldn't disrespect his legacy in that way. The people who celebrate this have probably seen a few of his movies but understood none of them
@dagda @therem i honestly don't really care about miyazaki's opinion, this is just shitposting to me