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Only a few days after Openai has launched its most advanced IA images generator to date, a tendency to social media imitating the work of the Japanese animation company Studio Ghibli shows both the power of technology and the concerns of the copyright that it raises.
The latest GPT-4O update, published Tuesday, has many practical progress, including more precise text rendering and the possibility of following more detailed and complex prompts. But he was also trained at length on a “wide variety of styles of images”, according to an article on the OpenAi website, superb users with its ability to generate fixed images and videos recalling their favorite animations, from “South Park” to Classic Clayation.
But a style quickly flooded X and Instagram, while chatgpt users (and OpenAi video text service, Sora) began to emulate the work of Beloved Animation Studio behind films like “Spirited Away” and “Howl’s Moving Castle”.
Some scenes recreated from pop culture or politics in the emblematic style of the Japanese company, including a reworked trailer For “The Lord of the Rings: the communion of the ring”, ” scenes From “The Sopranos”, and Donald Trump and JD Vance have a real White House exchange of JD Vance with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Unsurprisingly, some of the most viral messages take a tour of Ghibli on popular memes, including the “distracted boyfriend“,” The same “Bro explaining” (photo photo) and the infamous image of Ben Affleck smoking. Another post viral X represented the owner of the platform, Elon Musk, Covers – An image based on the recent video of the billionaire balancing spoons during a dinner organized by Trump in New Jersey.
However, a 2016 is also widely shared video in which the co-founder of Studio Ghibli Hayao Miyazaki describes the art generated by Ai as an “insult to life itself”. Miyazaki is known for her hand -drawn animation and his tiny method by frame.
“I am completely disgusted,” he said in the video, answering a video of a monster character generated using text prompts. “If you really want to do scary stuff, you can go ahead and do it, but I would never want to incorporate this technology into my work.”
Openai’s updated images has also aroused renewed discussions on the role of AI and art. This comes only a few weeks after nearly 4,000 people have signed an open letter calling for Christie’s Action House to cancel a first sale of its kind dedicated only to AI art on the concerns that the programs used to create generative digital documents are trained in work protected by copyright and use human artists.
The CEO of Openai, Sam Altman, shed light on the trend on X, joke That after “a decade, trying to help make superintendent to cure cancer or anything”, it was the images of Ghibli studio who had aroused viral interest in his work.
“Most of the time, nobody cares about the first 7.5 years, then for 2.5 years everyone hates you for everything,” he wrote. “Wake hundreds of messages one day:” Watch I have made you a Ghibli Twink Haha “style,” added Altman, referring to a gay slang term for men who are young, childish and thin.
As is often the case with art generated by AI, images raise various copyright issues – not only around Ghibli studio work, but reinvented images. When CNN encouraged Chatgpt to reproduce some of the memes of Ghibli style, the service refused, saying that “the request has not followed our content policy.”
