And we imagine the animation studio’s founder, 84-year-old Hayao Miyazaki, isn’t happy with the current phenomenon, as comments he made about AI in a 2016 documentary resurfaced last month.

Japanese Lawmakers Are Considering Making AI-Generated Studio Ghibli Images Illegal: The country's House of Representatives recently discussed whether the images violated copyright law.

This is why AI supposedly doesn’t violate copyright laws. Within the AI models there is nothing left of an artist’s work to copy.