But these imitation animations aren’t the work of famed Japanese company Studio Ghibli: they’re from ChatGPT. And that has some copyright experts sounding the alarm.

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.

Reps for Studio Ghibli in North America declined to comment. However, Hayao Miyazaki, the co-founder of Studio Ghibli, has previously expressed strong disapproval of AI-generated animation.

In the 1990s, tech companies used utopian language to sell the internet. The AI industry is taking a different approach.

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 ...

When CNN prompted ChatGPT to reproduce some of the Ghibli-style memes, the service refused, saying that ” the request didn’t follow our content policy.” ...

This new trend follows on from another major ongoing trend — the ChatGPT Studio Ghibli art creation, wherein people ask the AI software to reimagine them as characters in Hayao Miyazaki’s world.