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> they get defensive, almost like you are threatening their identity by saying a computer can do it.

It's a fairly common reaction from most people. Hayao Miyazaki, director of Spirited Away, got very upset after being shown a demo of AI doing animation:

https://qz.com/859454/the-director-of-spirited-away-says-ani...

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I feel like that misses a lot of the context of the video. It was animating mutilated bodies in a prototype for a horror game. It's no wonder it was upsetting.

At the end of the video he seems to show the other side - "I feel like we are nearing the end of times. We humans are losing faith in ourselves."

Yeah and if you read the quotes in the article, he's definitely more focused on the content than how it was made

I admit I didn't read the linked article, but I did watch the video and speak Japanese pretty fluently.

His reaction of disgust isn't to the general idea of computer-generated animation, but to the specific animation he's being shown, which features a corpse thrashing around on the ground, and specifically in relation to having a severely disabled friend.

It's entirely possible he's not a fan of computer-generated animation in general, but that clip doesn't indicate much one way or another.

He doesn't seem like he feels threatened in his identity, if anything that blank, off-guard stare of the others seems that way. He basically asks them wtf is wrong with them, and they just don't know. They "didn't mean anything by it".

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