The OpenAI Ghiblification release is clearly Altman and his acolytes doing it as a show of force against someone who loathes their vision of the world. It is also a real time exercise where these people demonstrate that they want to use machines to devalue labor. If you directly compare a Ghibli still to their facsimile, the beauty is apparent in the Ghibli still and the rot of AI evangelism stands out. Over millions of images generated in this way, the damage is done. Altman’s shambling corpse images will convince some people that there are no new truths to be found in a Ghibli film.