AI generated Ghibli images go viral as OpenAI loosens its rules

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/03/28/chatgpt-ghibli-ai-images-copyright/

by perihelions • 1 year ago

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13years2• 1 year ago

It is quite ironic that OpenAI loosens its rules, promoted Ghibli images, apparently in direct opposition to the viewpoints of Ghibli's founder, while also pursuing DeepSeek for using OpenAI data without permission.

FYI, some of my further elaboration on the topic:

"Everything that you loved for its uniqueness, craftsmanship, cultural significance, will be mass-produced until you despise seeing it."

https://www.mindprison.cc/p/studio-ghibli-style-ai-art-crisi...

rimeice• 1 year ago

“Quite ironic” being the understatement of the year. I’d opt for insanely ironic, unambiguously hypocritical or risible.

disqard• 1 year ago

Thank you for writing this.

There are various ways to try and make sense of what we're living through right now, and commentary such as yours (presumably informed by decades of seeing this industry evolve) will be valuable in the coming years, as we all try to find our bearings in this post-LLM, post-truth, post-literate world.

techpineapple2• 1 year ago

It’s kind of interesting things like this are happening while at the same time, some leaders, like Musk, are making an anti-globalization argument because of the way that it pollutes a places culture.

FloorEgg• 1 year ago

Can you point me to where Musk made this argument?

techpineapple2• 1 year ago

I could if Twitter search wasn’t god awful, and if Musk didn’t tweet like 50 times a day.

exe34• 1 year ago

Musk will say anything to get more money and power.

fullshark• 1 year ago

Different leaders believe different things, and both of these guys will say literally anything if they feel its in their interest. I'm sure Musk is pro-globalization if globalization = Grok being the world's preferred LLM.

Phil_Latio• 1 year ago

Globalization comes in many forms.

biophysboy2• 1 year ago

Its interesting that they picked an animation studio whose creator is famously opposed to AI, and whose stories frequently involve battles between technology and humanity.

mgiannopoulos• 1 year ago

OpenAI didn’t choose anything. This style simply happened to go viral. The model can do all sorts of stuff.

quikoa• 1 year ago

Sam Altman Promotes 4o Using Ghibli-Style Images

From: https://www.mindprison.cc/p/studio-ghibli-style-ai-art-crisi...

He could've chosen anything else.

crimsoneer• 1 year ago

It will specifically stop you if you try and ask it for the style of Disney or marvel, while Sama specifically tweeted an example of Ghibli. There is very clearly a conscious choice around which companies IP they protect, and which they're happy to exploit (eg, not US companies).

Like the "Her" tweet, I suspect this is another moment of Sama being bloody thoughtless and may very well come and bit him in the ass when he inevitably tries to deny this in the future.

EDIT: Okay, really weirdly, I tried this when this first came out and definitely seemed to hit a content policy block. and now it works.

biophysboy2• 1 year ago

Every gain is intentional; every cost is an accident.

perihelions2• 1 year ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13152651 ("‘I am utterly disgusted’: Legendary animator Hayao Miyazaki takes AI down a peg" (2016), 32 comments)

(Also alluded to in the WaPo OP)

sigmar• 1 year ago

I feel like the disgust that Miyazaki felt seeing an AI generated movie is very different than people editing their profile pics with a Ghibli style-transfer. (For several reasons, such as: the profile picture was already original art, no one is replacing artists with profile photo filters, and people are celebrating the style rather than profiting off plagiarism)

BeFlatXIII5• 1 year ago

It's been amusing to watch everyone get big mad at every passing AI style fad. Some people can't stand seeing others have fun when that fun doesn't involve paying others.

bakugo2• 1 year ago

Some people can't stand seeing others have fun when that fun doesn't involve paying others.

This "fad" very much does involve paying OpenAI.

renewiltord• 1 year ago

Please do not spread misinformation. You can do it on the free account. I checked with a new account.

_zoltan_4• 1 year ago

I've been transforming our family images for free.

TeMPOraL4• 1 year ago

It doesn't require it, but even if some people are doing it on the paid plan - ignoring for the moment that the argument is asinine because this is a fixed recurring payment, not pay-per-use - why do you care? Some people have fun and it involves paying other people; if you're neither, it's still none of your business.

bongodongobob• 1 year ago

I can't read the article. What's the news here? We've been able to do this for years now.

perihelions2• 1 year ago

https://archive.is/BmqRB

AI generated Ghibli images go viral as OpenAI loosens its rules

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