ChatGPT Takes Studio Ghibli Style
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OpenAI’s new image-generation tool is so popular it’s “melting” the company’s GPUs, forcing temporary limits, according to CEO Sam Altman. The tool has gone viral for its ability to create Studio Ghibli-style AI, reigniting copyright concerns.
Fortune delves into the AI generated images that purloin the style of Studio Ghibli style.
The company launched the native image-generating feature, powered by the GPT-4o model, on Tuesday. The new tool produces more realistic images and improves text rendering, with Altman calling it a “new high-water mark for us in allowing creative freedom.”
However, users have mainly been using it to create AI-generated memes in the style of Studio Ghibli, the Japanese animation studio behind films such as My Neighbor Totoro and Spirited Away. Over the last few days, social media feeds have been flooded with Ghibli-versions of people, animals, historical events, and podcasts.
The Daily Kos has an angrier take:
I am tired of writing about OpenAI and its open contempt for people who create things, but here we are, with another OpenAI led fad. This time, it is taking memes and photos and using imitative AI to make studio Ghibli like copies of them. Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, is doing this for no other reason than to harm the head of the studio, a man who is one of the public faces of AI opposition. It is tiresome and boring, the childish lashing out of an untalented, whiny little punk and in a just world, we would never have to hear this nonsense again.
An update to ChatGPT made it easy to simulate Hayao Miyazaki’s [Wiki link added] style of animation, which has flooded social media with memes.
Animated movies, like those from the famed Japanese filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki, are not made in a hurry. The intricate hand drawings and attention paid to every single detail can make for a slow, potentially yearslong process.
Or, you could simply ask ChatGPT to turn any old photo into a facsimile of Mr. Miyazaki’s work in just a few seconds.
At Educators Technology there is no hesitation of absconding with an artists style:
For the first time since the generative AI boom began a few years ago, we finally have a text-to-image tool that produces high-quality visuals with astonishing precision. I’ve been testing it out for a few days now, and honestly, I’m amazed at what it can do.
HuffPost notes that the fad has reached those in control of The White House social media.
When Studio Ghibli-style ChatGPT creations took off this week, no one expected the Trump administration to join the trend.
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