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I’m disgracefully unfamiliar with Ghibli’s movies, except for Grave of the Fireflies.
miyazaki was reacting specifically to an ai that animated characters in an uncanny, quasi-spastic manner. Do any of the Ghibli films feature monsters that move like that? Because if they don’t, perhaps Miyazaki was disturbed by the notion that someone would mock humans with movement disorders,
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The gif quoted is not the same that you mention. Is another part of the 2013 interview documentary in which he bemoans that the modern comic artists and animators do not have nor want to experience real life, but their experiences are based on the comics and animations they consumed previously. He feels this self-feeding cycle is creating purely derivative slop (hey, that sounds familiar!) and he feels disgusted that his work is used to “raise the average”. He’s considered leaving the industry for a while: first in 2013, after releasing “the wind rises”, later when his long time friend and cofounder Isao Takahata (BTW, he’s the director of “Grave of the Fireflies”) died, and now, seemingly for good, after 2023 release of “the boy and the heron”.
His criticism of the machine-learning backed movement is that… Miyazaki has always been a keen observer of life. His animation is one based on that precept. He dislikes shortcuts, and that demo was… honestly quite horrible. Like techbros trying to find a solution for an inexistent problem.
As for Miyazaki animating monsters… The Tatarigami attacking the village in Mononoke Hime is a good example of how the studio draws inhuman abominations. It was also the first movie in which ghibli used digital compositing:
As an aside, I greatly recommend viewing the accented cinema video about miyazaki to understand why he hates AI and modern japanese animation:
As well as wholly recommending watching Porko Rosso:
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Also (and sorry, I will stop fanboying!) Miyazaki is a curmudgeon with a short temper, and with his position and age he doesn’t feel the need to mince words. If something is disgusting, he will defy japanese expectations of diplomacy and say it plainly. 
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Not that I know of, so your point stands as a likely explanation.
I highly recommend watching more Ghibli films. Grave of the Fireflies is seminal work that will stand forever, but it is utterly unlike the rest of the movies.
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Just never watch Earwig and the witch…
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Why not?
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All — and when I say all, I mean all — references are now available for anyone to alter," he later explained to EL PAÍS. “This means anyone can generate or create. The problem remains the same: very few people have good references or taste. Now, we will have a world full of things that are without soul, without substance, but that are prettier. A world where bad taste becomes the norm,”
That reminds me of what became of typography when word processors and printers became common. Everyone now could make their own flyers and posters, but we lost something when it wasn’t just trained professionals and people who dedicated time to learn a craft and its conventions. Typography turned into WordArt slop for a few years (decades even) before the professionals clawed it back to acceptable levels by providing templates and high-quality default settings. Now it mostly looks acceptable, but derivative
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