Chatgpt: Viral Studio Ghibli-Ai pictures present strength and copyright concerns of update

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Only days after Openaai started his most advanced AI image generator, a social media trend that imitates the work of the Japanese animation company Studio Ghibli shows both the power of technology and the copyright concerns that raise it.

The latest update from GPT-4O, which was published on Tuesday, offers many practical progress, including more precise text reproduction and the ability to follow more detailed, complex input requests. According to a contribution at the Openai website, it was also trained in detail on a “large selection of image styles”, the breathtaking users with the ability to generate still images and videos that are reminiscent of their favorite animations, from “South Park” to classic sound.

However, a style quickly flooded X and Instagram, as the user of Chatgpt (and Openai’s text-to-video service, Sora) began to emulate the work of the beloved animation studio behind films such as “Spirited Away” and “Howl’s Moving Castle”.

Some reproduced scenes from pop culture or politics in the legendary style of the Japanese company, including a revised trailer for “The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring”, scenes from “Sopranos Sopranos” and Donald Trump and JD Vances Hitzig Real-Life-Weißenhaus exchange with the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

It is not surprising that some of the most viral contributions are popular memes, including the “distracted friend”, the “Bro explains” meme (depicted) and smoke the notorious picture of Ben Affleck. Another Viral X contribution showed the owner of the platform, Elon Musk, with Cutery -a picture based on the latest video of the billionaire balancing spoon during a dinner held by Trump in New Jersey.

However, a video from 2016 is also widespread in which Studio Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazaki describes the art of generation of AI as a “insult to life itself”. Miyazaki is known for his hand-drawn animation and his tedious frame for frame method.

“I am absolutely disgusted,” he says in the video and responds to a video of a monster character that is generated with text demands. “If you want to do really creepy things, you can do it, but I never want to involve this technology in my work.”

The updated image generator from Openaai has also led to renewed discussions about the role of AI and art. There are only a few weeks after almost 4,000 people have signed an open letter in which Christie’s auction house canceled a unique sale of sales, which is only devoted to AI art to create concerns that the programs with which some generative digital pieces were created in copyright-protected work and exploited human artists.

Sam Altman, CEO of Openaai, went on the trend towards X and joked that after a decade to make superintelligence to heal cancer, or whatever “It was Studio -Ghibli pictures that had generated a viral interest in his work.

“Most of the time nobody cares for the first 7.5 years, then for 2.5 years everyone hates them for everything,” he wrote. “Wake up for a day on hundreds of news: ‘Look, I made you in a Twink Ghibli style, Haha’,” added Altman and referred to a gay slang term for men who are young, boyish and slim.

As with the type of AI-generated art, the pictures throw various copyright questions only in relation to the work of Studio Ghiblis, but also by the images that are reinterpreted. When CNN Chatgpt asked to reproduce some of the memes in the Ghibli style, the service rejected and said: “The request did not follow our content directive.”