Michael
@michael
At first I thought these Ghibli family portraits, face reveals, new baby photos, etc. were a passing fad but now I'm not so sure. The more I think about it, the more I think that we're seeing a real-time renegotiation of our social media social contract. It's subtle, but I think we're going to be feeling the ripple effects for decades to come. What Ghiblificiation is telling us:
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Michael
@michael
Pre-GPT we had a binary choice: share our most meaningful moments online or preserve our privacy. Social media offered little middle ground between total exposure and complete withdrawal. This has been extra true for parents. Some of my friends with kids share photos freely, but many of them are downright militant about keeping their children off of the internet. The desire to share moments like your kid's first smile, their first steps, and their first dance recital is normal and human. But it's also in direct conflict with troubling questions like: Who else will see these? Where might they end up? What digital footprint am I making for someone who can't even consent yet? This feels like an impossible situation. How can we reconcile wanting to share these moments that are so meaningful to *us* without forcing that decision on the people *around* us?
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Nico
@nicom
What about the original photo fed to the AI? Should this be considered as going public as you give your content to a company that does who knows what with it?
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krel
@krel
i think the personal use (like your family photo) has a potentially longer tail than using ghibli style for marketing content (businesses), which i now firmly eye-roll at and think is bordering on -EV for whoever does it
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alexander the great
@the-cynic
i love takes like this. thank you for sharing. i've never thought of it this way. now, i'm thinking about if this changes the definition of privacy for us. this will keep me up for days. lol.
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