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30 subjects · 7 pro-AI · 23 anti-AI
Showing 30 profiles · 7 pro-AI · 23 anti-AI
Animator & Artist
Oscar-nominated Disney animator and co-director of Brother Bear. He urges fellow artists to “embrace” AI as a creative tool while condemning the nonconsensual training of models on artists’ work as unacceptable.
Legendary Disney animator behind Ariel, the Beast, Aladdin, and Tarzan, and director of the Oscar-winning Over the Moon. He sees a genuine “path for using AI” — but one that, in his words, “really requires artists to use it.”
Animator & Director
Creator of Neon Genesis Evangelion and co-director of Shin Godzilla. He calls AI “almost too convenient” yet argues the industry has “no choice but to accept it while exploring its possibilities” — a resigned, exploratory embrace.
South Park Co-Creator
Co-creator of South Park and co-founder of the deepfake studio Deep Voodoo, which raised $20M to bring consent-based AI visual effects to Hollywood — “we stumbled upon this amazing technology.”
Four-time Oscar-winning creator of Wallace & Gromit and the guiding hand of Aardman’s clay animation. In 2025 he said the studio would “embrace the technology” of AI — but cautiously, never at the expense of its handmade values.
Animator & Comedian
Creator of Family Guy and the Ted films. In 2026 he used AI to render himself as Bill Clinton for Ted’s second season, defending the technology as “a tool” that need not trample on other artists’ work.
Co-creator of South Park and The Book of Mormon who co-founded the deepfake studio Deep Voodoo — he calls the technology “this new form of animation” and “a perfect medium for us.”
Oscar-winning Australian claymation auteur behind Harvie Krumpet, Mary and Max, and Memoir of a Snail — which he ended with a card reading “this film was made by human beings.” A champion of the handmade against the machine-made.
Animator & Show Creator
Creator, writer, and voice of Disney’s Gravity Falls, who reacted with viral scorn on learning his scripts had been scraped to train AI — joking about encoding a virus into a screenplay — and has repeatedly mocked the industry’s embrace of generative tools.
Manga Artist
South Korean–born manga artist behind Sun-Ken Rock and the hit series Dr. Stone, who stopped posting his art on X in protest after the platform added an AI image-editing tool, saying he cannot accept his work being exploited without consent.
Director & Animator
Co-creator of Lilo & Stitch and director of How to Train Your Dragon and The Wild Robot. Though his 2024 film is about a machine, he stresses no AI made it — calling the movie a work that “stands in defiance of AI.”
Oscar-winning director of Big Hero 6 and Netflix’s The Sea Beast. He calls himself “more of a Luddite,” openly nervous that generative AI will be used to put artists out of work.
Manga artist known for Chrono Crusade and World Embryo, who deleted years of his artwork from X in 2025 after the platform added an AI image-editing feature, saying he had lost any desire to leave his work there.
Animator
Peabody Award-winning animator and creator of Disney Channel’s The Owl House who became one of animation’s most outspoken opponents of generative AI. In 2025 she urged fans to cancel Disney+ and pirate her own show in protest of the studio’s embrace of AI-generated content.
Creator of Dexter’s Laboratory, Samurai Jack, and Primal. His response to generative AI is to out-human it: make animation so original, he says, that it becomes “AI-proof.”
Studio Ghibli Director
Studio Ghibli director and son of Hayao Miyazaki who argues that AI, lacking lived human experience, can automate an animator’s tasks but never replicate the emotional depth that defines Ghibli’s films.
Animator & Filmmaker
Co-founder of Studio Ghibli and director of Spirited Away, whose 2016 reaction to an AI animation demo — “an insult to life itself” — became the single most-quoted line in the entire AI-art debate.
Stop-motion director of The Nightmare Before Christmas and Coraline. He dismisses generative AI’s creative value and insists that animation still feel “touched by a real person.”
Creator of the long-running manga JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, who in 2024 called generative AI a “societal evil,” warned of an art world overrun by scammers, and recounted mistaking an AI forgery for his own work.
Animator & Educator
British animator and popular animation-tutorial YouTuber who joined the historic 2025 anti-generative-AI protest at the Annecy festival, calling the technology a “vehicle for exploitation” built by extracting artists’ life’s work.
Director of The Book of Life and Netflix’s Maya and the Three. In 2026 he publicly quit Amazon’s generative-AI animation program after community backlash, dropping his planned “Punky Duck” series — “Actions speak louder than words.”
Filmmaker & 3D Animator
Montreal-based filmmaker and 3D animator who founded “This Film Was Made Without AI,” a collaborative project inviting artists to animate human-made disclaimers, after his own hand-crafted film was falsely accused of being AI-generated.
Animation Director
Oscar-winning co-director of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse who rose through the industry as a storyboard artist, and who has publicly ridiculed studios turning to generative AI to replace the boarding jobs that gave him and countless others their start.
President, Warner Bros. Animation
President of Warner Bros. Animation and Cartoon Network Studios — a studio executive who, unusually for his level, has said he has seen nothing AI can do visually that a human artist does not do better, and framed protecting artists as a studio duty.
Storyboard Artist & Director
Storyboard artist and director who serves on the Animation Guild’s AI task force and negotiating committee, and who has become a plainspoken explainer of how image generators are powered by artists’ scraped portfolios.
Anime Director
Director of Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo who calls generative AI “a heartless monster” and argues it is “better not to use AI in the creative field.”
Animation Workers’ Union
IATSE Local 839, the union of more than 5,000 Hollywood animation workers. It made generative AI the centerpiece of its 2024 contract fight, staging the largest animation labor rally in history — and ratified a deal many members felt fell short.
Three-time Oscar-nominated Irish director and Cartoon Saloon co-founder behind The Secret of Kells, Song of the Sea, and Wolfwalkers. He describes his studio’s hand-drawn path as a deliberate “response to AI.”
Animator & Story Artist
Professional animator and story artist — credits include How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, The Croods: A New Age, Blue Eye Samurai, and Invincible — who teaches hand-drawn animation to 380K+ YouTube subscribers and argues generative AI defeats the artistic growth that gives art its meaning.
Creator of Gundam
Creator of the Mobile Suit Gundam franchise who argues AI will never overpower anime because humans instinctively “can tell when something is not real” and will return to analog line drawing.
