Ghibli-style has always been a fascination and a beautiful world for animation lovers. Studio Ghibli is a Japanese animation studio, headed by Hayao Miyazaki.
To allow users to live in a Ghibli moment, OpenAI unlocked the 4o Image Generation, a useful and valuable image generator with a natively multimodal model capable of precise, accurate, photorealistic outputs.
Within hours of OpenAI’s update, Instagram has been flooding with Ghibli-styled pictures which made the ChatGPT’s GPU melt. Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI tweeted that, “Can yall please chill on generating images this is insane our team needs sleep.” This Ghibli-style feature was released for free, but the unexpected success of the model prompted OpenAI to limit this to its paid users.
Ask the chatbot to transform the image into Ghibli-style theme.
While everyone seems to have hooked on this viral trend, some are also concerned about the copyright and originality of such animations. Many shared thoughts on the hardwork and passion of animators and artists who created rewatch-deserving animation movies. Example, the four-second scene in The Wind Rises (2013), which took animator Eiji Yamamori one year and three months to complete.
Image Via: Studio Ghibli@X | Cropped by GBN
When Miyazaki was shown an AI animation demo in 2016, he said, “I am utterly disgusted. If you really want to make creepy stuff you can go ahead and do it. I would never wish to incorporate this technology into my work at all. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.”
Amid the rise of popularity for ChatGPT image generators, a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft filed by the Times has been allowed to proceed by Federal Judges.
The New York Times in 2023 alleged that the maker of ChatGPT unlawfully used the more than 170-year-old newspaper’s work to train its chatbots.
