July 8, 2025
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Brazil breaks out in a rash over life-like doll craze

Representative image (AI) CAMPINAS: Gabi Matos looks the quintessential doting mum as she changes Ravi’s nappy, cooing reassuringly as he stares up at her.But this Brazilian “newborn” doesn’t seem to mind having his nappy changed. In fact, he has no real emotions whatsoever.Ravi is a hyper-realistic doll with an eerie resemblance to an actual infant.Some […]

‘An insult to life itself’: Hayao Miyazaki’s scathing take on AI resurfaces amid ChatGPT’s Ghibli craze

Old video of its co-founder Hayao Miyazaki saying AI-generated animation was an “insult to life itself” is going viral. OpenAI’s latest image generator has unleashed a flood of Studio Ghibli-style portraits across social media, but a resurfaced clip of Japanese animator and Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazaki condemning AI art is reigniting a heated debate on […]