I respect Miyazaki's opinion here. He's an artist with a strict moral code. Most of his movies are about how technology perverts nature and makes it dangerous. Also, he is a big proponent of hand-made animation. What he is seeing here is an experiment to remove not only people who can draw, but people who can even imagine things for animation. It is a glimpse of a future where even artists are replaced by automation. He's being presented with basically everything he sees as evil and grotesque about humanity, and as an animation artist, he's seeing it encroaching on the very craft he's spent his career stewarding. It is largely because of him that anime is even regarded as fine art among the fine arts community. Now in this age of Automation, neo-liberal capitalism, and proud philistinism, he sees a dark cloud on the horizon of all remaining starving artists hoping for a new renaissance. I see the technological progress value of what these guys are doing, but i have to side with the great artist on this one. close minded and thinks there's only one good medium to communicate art

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