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I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself." Wise words from legendary Japanese filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki, whose ...
Studio Ghibli fans are thrilled with AI-generated artworks mimicking the beloved animation style, igniting a viral trend. However, the surge in demand raises concerns over the devaluation of ...
The Brief OpenAI’s new image generator in GPT‑4o is producing viral Studio Ghibli-style artwork CEO Sam Altman joined in on the meme trend with a post joking about his Ghibli-ification Studio ...
Similar results gave the Ghibli style to iconic images, such as the casual look of Turkish pistol shooter Yusuf Dikec in a T-shirt and one hand in his pocket on his way to winning a silver medal ...
Similar results gave the Ghibli style to iconic images, such as the casual look of Turkish pistol shooter Yusuf Dikec in a T-shirt and one hand in his pocket on his way to winning a silver medal ...
What happened The painstakingly crafted, hand-drawn Ghibli style is beloved by fans, and earlier this week, it was co-opted by the GPT-4o model in OpenAI's image generator. This resulted in a ...
That stylistic endurance has made Ghibli an outlier in contemporary animation. Disney ditched hand-drawn animation in favor of the more modern computer-generated style years ago; the studio has ...
But one style quickly flooded X and Instagram, as users of ChatGPT (and OpenAI’s text-to-video service, Sora) began emulating the work of beloved animation studio behind movies like “Spirited ...
The Ghibli-style image trend is not an isolated incident. It’s a symptom of a larger shift: AI has made it easy to mimic not just content, but creative identity.
Studio Ghibli’s co-founder, Miyazaki, is still a working artist and one who has taken issue with AI in the past, famously calling the tech an “insult to life itself” in a 2016 documentary.
Studio Ghibli in Japan declined to comment Friday. As users posted their Ghibli-style images on social media, Miyazaki's previous comments on AI animation also began to resurface.