Internet has become a playground inspired by Ghibli’s study.
Admirers of the Japanese animation study are using a new Chatgpt update to create portraits and memes inspired by the distinctive artistic style popularized by the filmmaker and study of study Hayao Miyazaki.
The trend arose within a day of the presentation of the new native capabilities of generation of native images on Tuesday within GPT-4O, the latest version of Chatgpt. Users who pay the premium levels, which begin at $ 20 per month, can load any image in the system and ask the tool to transform them “in the style of Studio Ghibli.” Users can also use the tool with Sora, the AI Text Ai model from Chatgpt.
Some of the most shared images published on social networks recreated political events in the history of the United States, including the February 28 meeting of President Donald Trump with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the murder of President John F. Kennedy. Others transformed the popular memes, including a recent one that refers to the morning routine of the Fitness Ashton Hall influencer and the distracted boyfriend meme of a decade.
But many people simply used it to take their favorite photos with their family, friends and pets seem to have left a Ghibli movie.
The Operai CEO, Sam Altman, also joined the trend, changing his profile photo X to the same Ghibli study style.
Chatgpt launched the function amid the continuous concerns of artists about the infiltration of artificial intelligence generative technology in each artistic environment, including images, voices and music.
At the end of 2023, a widely circulated list revealed the names of thousands of artists whose work was used without consent to train the popular art generator of Ia Midjourney. Last year, more than 11,000 creatives signed an open letter condemning the use of human art to train AI without permission.
And last month, thousands of artists similarly signed an open letter urging Christie’s New York gallery to discard their AI art auction.
“Many of the works of art that plans auction were created using AI models that are known that they are trained in work with copyright without a license,” said the letter. “These models and the companies behind them, exploit human artists, using their work without permission or payment to build products of commercials that compete with them.”
While many social media users were excited to use the new AI tool, others regretted that their use decreases Miyazaki’s work.
Some people referred to reinvented art like AI Slop, a term used to describe extravagant images and generated by AI that often dominate food on social networks. Others called the “soulless” images.
“What we have seen today is AI Slop’s very definition,” wrote an user X. “The abundance of imitation gibbin flooding our food. Reduced art ‘content’. The unique design becomes metic generation. Zero creativity.”
Openai, like many of its competitors, does not reveal the specific data used to train its models. But the accuracy of his impressions of Studio Ghibli has also again asked the questions of some users about whether he has scraped the works of the study without permission.
No company responded immediately to comments requests.
Openai, who has been sued by several media, authors and visual artists who allege a copyright infraction, asked the United States government this month that facilitates the companies to learn from material with copyright, citing the need to “strengthen the lead of the United States” worldwide in the advancement of technology.
The company states that its last image generation tool stands out particularly to closely follow the indications of a user, using the chat context and with precision the text, which Ia image generators have been notoriously inept.
“These capabilities make it easier to create exactly the image you imagine, helping you communicate more effectively through images and advance images in a practical and power tool,” the company wrote in a blog advertisement on Tuesday.
Miyazaki, a legendary animator, previously called art generated by the “an insult to life itself.”
“Whoever has done it does not think about pain. It is very unpleasant,” he said during a manifestation of AI in 2016, according to the clip of the moment that circulated on social networks on Wednesday. “You can do horrible things if you want, but I don’t want to have anything to do with that.”
