There has only been one day since then Chatgpt’s new AI Image Generator is availablesocial media feeds have already flooded Ghibli’s style with the style of AI-generated memes, which is the favorite Japanese animation studios in the sprawling movies such as “My Neighbor Totoro” and “Spiritual Boost”.
Over the past 24 hours, we have seen AI-generated images representing Studio Ghibli versions Elon Musk“”Lord of the Rings“, and President Donald Trump. Openai CEO Sam Altman even seems to have Make his new profile picture a Ghibli-like studio imageprobably made from the local image generator of GPT-4O. The user appears to be uploading existing images and images into Chatgpt and asking the chatbot to recreate it in a new style.
Openai’s latest update is Google’s AI-like image-like high-heeled shoes released in its Gemini Flash model, which also triggered a viral moment in early March People use it to remove watermarks from images.
OpenAI and Google’s latest tools make it easier than ever to recreate a copyrighted work style – just by typing text prompts. In short, these new AI image capabilities seem to regain the focus of several lawsuits targeting developers generating AI models. If these companies are being trained for copyrighted works, do they violate copyright laws?
Products like GPT-4O’s local image generators run in legal grey areas today, according to IP lawyer Evan Brown. According to Brown, the style is not explicitly copyrighted, meaning Openai doesn’t seem to violate the law simply by generating images that look like Studio Ghibli movies.
However, Brown said it would make sense to achieve this similarity by training models of millions of frames in Ghibli’s movies. Even in this case, several courts are still deciding whether AI models are trained to protect copyrighted works for the protection of reasonable use.
“I think this raises questions about what we’ve asked ourselves for years past,” Brown said in an interview. “What are the effects of copyright infringement by going out and crawling and copying into these databases?”
The New York Times and several publishers are Active lawsuit against Openaiclaiming that the company trained on copyrighted works without proper attribution or payment. Litigation against other leading AI companies, including Meta and AI image generation startup Midjourney.
An OpenAI spokesperson said in a statement to TechCrunch that while Chatgpt refuses to copy “the style of a single living artist,” Openai does allow it to copy “a wider studio style.” Of course, it is worth noting that there are some living artists known for their unique styles that pioneered the studio, such as Miyazaki, co-founder of Studio Ghibli.
Obviously, users can also use GPT-4O’s local image generation feature to recreate other studios and artists’ styles. Others made portraits of Marc Andreessen in style Dr. Seussa married couple reappears their Pixar style wedding photos.
We tested several popular AI image generators, including Google’s Gemini, Xai’s Grok, and Playground.ai available to see their ability to match Studio Ghibli-style. We found Openai’s new image generator to be the most accurate in animation studio style to date.
Currently, the new image capabilities of OpenAI and Google have made a leap in what AI models can produce, which seems to be driving a surge in usage. Openai delays its new image tool to free-tier users on Wednesday Quote high demand. This is probably the most important thing for these companies today. They will have to wait for the court to weigh its legitimacy.
