I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself." Wise words from legendary Japanese filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki, whose ...

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.

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.” ...

The Ghibli AI phenomenon is often portrayed as organic, driven by the inspiration of ChatGPT users. On X, the person credited with jump-starting the trend noted that OpenAI had been “incredibly ...

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 ...

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.

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.