> 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:
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.
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".
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...