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My one complaint in your comment is the "if you're a good artist you'll find work", it's simply not true.
I'm a shit artist (im an untrained outsider slapping paint on surfaces to vaguely resemble what my clients ask for) and I find work, yet none of my friends who are legitimately talented are finding anything.
I understand what you're saying, that the job market is a lot of luck and can be unfair. But it does sound like they need to keep trying. Every determined, talented person I've seen enter my industry (gamedev, an industry at the bleeding edge of ai art as a technology) has done so after hundreds of rejected applications and eventually broken in. Is it fair? Not at all. Will you eventually have your value recognized if you keep at it long enough and keep honing your craft? Absolutely. The difficult part lies in not burning out and quitting during the agonizingly grueling process of breaking in, which I can sympathize with, as I've gone through it myself. I have seen many people end up down that route, but the thing everybody on that route shared was that they didn't care enough about doing art to just keep on trying despite whatever circumstances they had thrown at them, which is just an unfortunate reality. And yes, for what it's worth, AI is absolutely making that process more frustrating.
You are being downvoted for your survivor bias and your lack of respect for Miyazaki.
I don't care; they can downvote away. People on social media are stupid, which is demonstrated by the fact that if you read the rest of my replies, you'd see that I agree with Miyazaki, but also that everyone is interpreting what he was saying incorrectly by ignoring half of what he said, which is ACTUALLY disrespectful to the man. The important context in what he said was that an AI would not be able to replicate the expression of pain his friend felt via animation like a human who understands pain and emotions could, and THAT is why he found it offensive to life. There is a giant difference between that and using AI in your workflow to improve your efficiency so that you can focus more on the important creative bits, which is what Miyazaki was clearly referring to as being what he cared about.
So yeah, dumbasses online not being able to read context or critically think from their social media complaint armchairs don't have any sway on my opinion when I have a decade of real-world experience being an artist for a living on them.