Discussion

• @altryne Alex Volkov on x

  “Ships are safest in the harbor... But that's not what ships or models are for” Thats a great metaphor. Also as I said on @thursdai_pod today, Gemini and Grok already went there, so it's not like humans don't have these capabilities already! Memes always win!

• @nexuist Andi on x

  @joannejang Thanks for this. I think the best precedent to promote going forward, which has loosely but freely been endorsed in the replies of controversial posts in the past, is to administer the blame onto the user prompting the offensive imagery, rather than blaming the model

• @sterlingcrispin Sterling Crispin on x

  @joannejang @OpenAI It still does a lot of refusal — could you add an ability to give feedback specific to overactive refusal Right now all users have is the thumbs down button which isn't very communicative as to why we don't like the output [image]

• @borismpower Boris Power on x

  I'm extremely excited to see the nuanced approach taken focusing on the freedom of creative expression.  So much new delight resulted from the new image generation being used creatively as evidenced by my entire feed of anime themed imagery!  Joanne is incredibly thoughtful so pl…

• @joannejang Joanne Jang on x

  // i lead model behavior at openai, and wanted to share some thoughts & nuance that went into setting policy for 4o image generation. features capital letters (!) bc i published it as a blog post: — This week, we launched native image generation in ChatGPT through 4o. It was

• @sama Sam Altman on x

  we are launching a new thing today—images in chatgpt!  two things to say about it: 1.  it's an incredible technology/product.  i remember seeing some of the first images come out of this model and having a hard time they were really made by AI. we think people will love it, and w…

• @harrymccracken.com Harry McCracken on bluesky

  So far, AI shows no signs whatsoever of being capable of having a sense of taste or class.  This is appalling.  —  https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/ openais-studio-ghibli-meme-factory?fbcl id= IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2Ml2-WwypPzqxFQ5MB6 HO2U6p1- 4emBluwskDBbj7HSAeCD7NMRjzZz_I_aem_…

• @positronplays Scott on bluesky

  Openly and aggressively stealing from Miyazaki/Studio Ghibli is a pretty objective indicator of how bad this whole genAI thing is.  —  Never once did they consider paying for these rights, just that they can steal without consequence.  Stop supporting this.  —  www.bloodinthemach…

• @carnage4life Dare Obasanjo on bluesky

  The idea of an animation studio owning copyright on a “style” as opposed to specific character or story elements isn't how copyright works.  —  While it's reasonable to argue if OpenAI training on Studio Ghibili's works is fair use, creating images in their styke isn't intellectu…

• @jasonkoebler Jason Koebler on bluesky

  the bummer of all of this is that it is happening to everyone who makes anything creative all at once across hundreds of LLMs and companies so it feels very difficult to fight back in any meaningful way  —  www.404media.co/hayao-miyaza...

• @theinnerobserver Kaitlyn Page on bluesky

  AI is literally destroying the lives of creatives and using copyrighted material to train their databases.  —  STOP using it.  Even just “doing it for fun,” is unethical and giving these companies even more reason to keep rolling out new updates.  Hayao Miyazaki should be allowed…

• @andybrockman Andy Brockman on bluesky

  Intellectual Property Theft News  —  With films like Spirited Away and My Neighbour Totorro, Studio Ghibli is one of the most beloved and creative forces in cinema.  —  Now Chat GPT's new image generator faces criticism & questions over how it was “trained” after a spate of Ghibl…

• @prietschka Paul Rietschka on bluesky

  This doesn't “highlight AI copyright concerns,” it exposes the fraudulence of so much of the AI sector.  —  One should not be able to simply generate, with no effort on the user's part whatsoever, content that belongs to others.  —  This is theft, period.  Yet **another** technol…

• @atherton Kelsey Atherton on bluesky

  “Our testing showed ChatGPT would also generate famous and graphic war photographs in the style of Ghibli movies, including “napalm girl” and “Saigon Execution.  www.404media.co/hayao-miyaza...

• @jael Jael Holzman on bluesky

  make it stop make it stop make it stop make it stop make it stop

• @nateinthewild Nate Luebbe on threads

  God I hope Studio Ghibli can sue OpenAI for like $17 Billion.

• @sama Sam Altman on x

  it's super fun seeing people love images in chatgpt. but our GPUs are melting. we are going to temporarily introduce some rate limits while we work on making it more efficient. hopefully won't be long! chatgpt free tier will get 3 generations per day soon.

• @sama Sam Altman on x

  >be me >grind for a decade trying to help make superintelligence to cure cancer or whatever >mostly no one cares for first 7.5 years, then for 2.5 years everyone hates you for everything >wake up one day to hundreds of messages: “look i made you into a twink ghibli style haha”

• @sama Sam Altman on x

  images in chatgpt are wayyyy more popular than we expected (and we had pretty high expectations). rollout to our free tier is unfortunately going to be delayed for awhile.

• @whitehouse @whitehouse on x

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• @pjaccetturo PJ Ace on x

  What if Studio Ghibli directed Lord of the Rings? I spent $250 in Kling credits and 9 hours re-editing the Fellowship trailer to bring that vision to life—and I'll show you exactly how I did it 👇🏼 [video]

• @shilstone_arts Robbie Shilstone on x

  Miyazaki spent his entire life building one of the most expansive and imaginative bodies of work, all so you could rip it off and use it as a filter for your vacation photos. Not into this one bit. Protect artists.

• @mdurbar Mufaddal Durbar on x

  Iconic movie scenes, Studio Ghibli style. This is so much fun! [image]

• @grantslatton Grant Slatton on x

  tremendous alpha right now in sending your wife photos of yall converted to studio ghibli anime [image]

• @levelsio @levelsio on x

  For all the hundreds of people making Ghibli generator apps now If you call it Ghibli or similar, you will get a letter from Studio Ghibli's lawyers But worse, if you make millions, you'll just pay that to them in damages in a year or so Call it Anime Generator or smth generic [i…

• @zemotion Jingna Zhang on x

  I'm exhausted. I think someone well-intentioned passed my photo thru OpenAI's new image model to show what it can do. And while I appreciate the sentiment, can I just say that as the original artist, seeing stuff like these makes me feel like shit 1/ [image]

• @kantrowitz Alex Kantrowitz on x

  Pretty amazing how Elon Musk's X is the greatest marketing tool for OpenAI, his arch rival, with all these Ghibli images filling the feed.. Wonder how long he'll let it go on for. h/t @mgsiegler

• @holyn @holyn on x

  we're over intellectualizing this people don't care that it's AI, they just want cool filters & effects that feel “new” it happened with apple photo booth before snap & IG the trend is forever because it's fun (remember fun?) but productizing a feature is always fleeting [image]

• @nikitabier Nikita Bier on x

  ...While we will get fatigued by the Ghibli style soon, we will see a number of Instagram-with-AI-filter attempts in the coming weeks.  My guess is that the one that resonates the most will have sufficient constraints that ensure a consistency of tone on the feed (similar to Inst…

• @signulll @signulll on x

  it's kinda hilarious that google dropped their biggest upgrade ever & ghibli core completely hijacked the zeitgeist. peak example of how vibes now override tech merit in the attention economy.

• @loudmouthjulia Julia Alexander on x

  Content ID is the most important tool created by YouTube. Google was tired of fights with rights holders like Viacom so built a product that could ensure scale without interference. Matter of when, not if, OpenAI is forced to introduce its own Content ID for the same reasons.

• @loudmouthjulia Julia Alexander on x

  Now, Content ID kickstarted YouTube's creator revolution. Incentive to create without copyrighted works led to one of the most creative, democratized periods in media. Whether that happens with Sora...I'm doubtful, but who knows. Everything comes back to how Sora is trained.

• @emollick Ethan Mollick on x

  Very confident that no one has clearly gotten their head wrapped around the last couple days of AI True multimodal image generation (far bigger implications than anime profiles), Gemini 2.5 showing models can still become much better, new GPT-4 voice (which is under-noticed)

• @tszzl Roon on x

  no offense to dr ally louks but this living in unreality is at the heart of this whole debate the counterfactual isn't a drawing made by a person it's the drawing doesn't exist [image]

• @trungtphan Trung Phan on x

  Since Studio Ghibli is trending, worth noting the mind-boggling effort Hayao Miyazaki and his team put into a film. Each has 60k-70k frames, all hand-drawn and painted with water color. This 4-second clip ("The Wind Rises") took one animator 15 months to do. In the documentary [v…

• @minimaxir Max Woolf on x

  The more disturbing implication here is that since the Ghibli meme is just transforming an image to the style, that means either a) this was based on a real image b) they composited this image before styling c) they prompted “have this woman crying and arrested, in Ghibli style”

• @katienotopoulos Katie Notopoulos on x

  9/11 pics as Ghibli is “funny” in the same way that doing the Borat voice is funny. It IS kind of funny! But it's the worst use of AI: uncreative, one-note, obvious how stolen it is, not useful in real life, novelty. OpenAI should probably feel bad this is what people are doing

• @cyantist Cyan Banister on x

  The Studio Ghibli craze is interesting on many levels and I wonder which artists it will inspire to promote and ALLOW for this to happen. My guess is revenue and interest in Ghibli films just went up substantially. Now, maybe they don't care, but someone out there who does care

• @8teapi Prakash on x

  This is not true. The Miyazaki hates AI meme came from a clip where he saw some zombies using their heads to crawl around and he wondered why “they made these creepy things”. He absolutely wanted people to experience wonder, so he would love the Ghibli image gens.

• @altryne Alex Volkov on x

  Anyone check on Anti Ai art people lately? Folks if your friend is an anti ai art person, reach out to them and makes surely haven't overdosed on coping and seething 😅 [image]

• @pjaccetturo PJ Ace on x

  “It's called Ghibli vibe prompting. There's an art to it.” [image]

• @sahilriz Sahil Rizwan on x

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• @noheeriye @noheeriye on x

  The Ghiblification of the timeline is an ode to Miyazaki, a celebration of all he has achieved. None of it will match the nuances he can capture - but the fact that we are using the smartest tech available to try to replicate it is the deepest form of admiration. It's only an

• @emanuelsa Emanuel Sá on x

  It was reported yesterday that OpenAI will be doing 12.7B revenue/year. It's CEO is advertising his product by infringing the copyright of an artist who at best will do less than 1% of that on his lifetime (Hayao Miyazaki) I love to play with these tools too, but actively [image]

• @johnbiggs John Biggs on x

  Me, a Moron: Finally with AI art is accessible to all!

• @tszzl Roon on x

  the glory of any current and future achievements of the models is collectively owned by the vast lineage of human mastery recorded in bytes, without which models could not do anything great

• @tszzl Roon on x

  it's only a few times in my life i got to see days like today when technological marvels bring together the timeline in rapturous joy

• @heybarsee @heybarsee on x

  It's been 24 hours since OpenAI unexpectedly shook the AI image world with 4o image generation. Here are the 14 most mindblowing examples so far (100% AI-generated): 1. Studio ghibli style memes [image]

• @nuberodesign @nuberodesign on x

  Since this utter garbage is trending, we should take a look at what Hayao Miyazaki, the founder of Studio Ghibli, said about machine created art. [video]

• @trungtphan Trung Phan on x

  Hayao Miyazaki after seeing the 987,654th AI-generated Studio Ghibli image [image]

• @morganb Morgan Brown on x

  The Ghibli trend isn't just viral—it is a case study in how to launch AI features with real cultural and product impact. On March 25th, OpenAI launched image generation directly inside ChatGPT. No new tool. No separate workflow. Just upload a photo and prompt. From a user's [imag…

• @halvarflake Halvar Flake on x

  The Ghibli stuff shows again: The music industry is much stronger at enforcing their copyrights than the image industry.

• @quantian1 @quantian1 on x

  Incredible things are happening with the new Chat GPT update [image]

• @balajis Balaji on x

  A few thoughts on the new ChatGPT image release.  (1) This changes filters.  Instagram filters required custom code; now all you need are a few keywords like “Studio Ghibli” or Dr. Seuss or South Park.  (2) This changes online ads.  Much of the workflow of ad unit generation can …

• @michael_nielsen Michael Nielsen on x

  I really hope Miyazaki is offline, and his messaging platforms all undergo loss-of-data failures this week. I know, I know, it's an expression of love, but this certainly ain't his love language. Poor guy...

• @venturetwins Justine Moore on x

  ChatGPT when another Studio Ghibli request comes in [image]

• @sama Sam Altman on x

  one man's slop is another man's treasure

• @bcmerchant Brian Merchant on x

  It's profoundly depressing seeing all the Studio Ghibli-styled AI output tacitly being used to promote OpenAI's latest product. Miyazaki famously called AI-produced art “an insult to life itself”—and this in turn is an insult to one of our greatest-ever animators and artists

• @ausscreenwriter AussieScreenwriter on x

  OpenAI has stolen Studio Ghibli's artwork & these morons are cheering and clapping for it as if this crap has actually acheived anything. They're literally advertising a plagarism program that hasn't compensated nor sought permission from Stuido Ghibli. Fuck these people.

• @nickmillermusic Nick Miller on x

  Don't do the AI studio ghibli thing, don't talk to Grok... these things aren't hard to avoid. Quit using AI bullshit

• @slimjosa @slimjosa on x

  The whole Studio Ghibli AI trend honestly gives me second-hand embarrassment knowing how hard Hayao Miyazaki has fought to retain the identity of his films and how many of you are this willing to make a farce out of decades of artistry because you don't actually value it

• @ednewtonrex Ed Newton-Rex on x

  Feels like there's a good chance Studio Ghibli sues OpenAI. Their stills are presumably in the training data against their wishes, and OpenAI execs are actively promoting + encouraging the trend of users generating in their style.

• @gergelyorosz Gergely Orosz on x

  Why does ChatGPT refuse to generate e.g. Nintendo Switch of Super Mario content? But why will it generate Studio Ghibli-style images (that are indistinguishable from the iconic style of the Japanese animation studio)? Likely answer: difference in US vs Japanese copyright law [ima…

• @nearcyan Near on x

  surely theres a pt tho where even the unabashed techbro is like yeah the ghibli artists making US minimum wage deserve something for this

• @nearcyan Near on x

  studio ghibli? you mean the chatgpt feature right? [image]

• @grantslatton Grant Slatton on x

  honestly openai is incredibly fortunate the positive vibes of ghibli was the first viral use of their model and not some awful deepfake nonsense

• @sama Sam Altman on x

  believe it or not we put a lot of thought into the initial examples we show when we introduce new technology

• @metaplexmovies Brendan Hodges on x

  irony is dead and all but it's pretty depressing to see Ghibli A.I. slop on the timeline not only because Miyazaki famously thinks A.I. art is disgusting but because he's spent the last 50 years making art about environmental waste for petty human uses

• @pelziee Pelz on x

  AI wont make your photos Ghibli. Ghibli is hand drawn and each character has insane emotional depth. As scary it is to admit the result looks decent, it's nothing like Ghibli and will never be. Big fuck you to AI. This is terrible advancement of technology.

• @hkesvani @hkesvani on x

  if you are impressed by the ghibli filter you are a loser and a big baby

• @787fka @787fka on x

  The Studio Ghibli prompting is low key depressing — if you can't currently understand why, you will eventually.

• @f_edits Fredrik on x

  Awesome. The Ghibli style is now going to become oversaturated and associated with lazy and boring content - can't wait for kids to grow up thinking the Ghibli movies are Ai-generated and instead of art that's crafted by excellent artists

• @imbethmccoll Beth McColl on x

  right i'm putting my phone down for an hour and by the time im back let's have this studio ghibli ai shite all wrapped up

• @kilimeeeen @kilimeeeen on x

  If I speak, I will become twitters villain of the week, so I will say nothing at all

• @space_b0y_ Morgan on x

  hayao miyazaki should be able to sue someone. idk who but he is owed that

• @thecaptain_nemo Nemo on x

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• @tom_westgarth15 Tom Westgarth on x

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• @r3h8t @r3h8t on x

  Every single person posting Ghibli AI has miserably failed to understand Ghibli as an art form

• @uncledoomer @uncledoomer on x

  twitter is fucking unusable. im trying to get updates on whether the stock market is crashing but all im seeing are studio ghibli JD vance memes

• @cpaik Chris Paik on x

  A troubling paradox: iconic aesthetics from artists like Hayao Miyazaki & Studio Ghibli, crafted over decades, are now commodified into quick, consumable, even vapid content.

• @jiratickets @jiratickets on x

  “Studio Ghibli” is insane because it appears to be one of the most dangerous image gens with the potential to gigafry your brain but is exclusively prompted by literal turbonormies who unironically want the “tremendous alpha in sending your wife photos of yall converted to anime”

• @indian_bronson @indian_bronson on x

  Apple VR where it turns everything Studio Ghibli [image]

• @ednewtonrex Ed Newton-Rex on x

  The entire AI Studio Ghibli thing is awful. But by far the worst part is the people *actively celebrating* that this would sadden/anger Miyazaki, Studio Ghibli's creator. Silicon Valley has never been in a worse place. It's sickening to watch the artist-hate spread.

• @adtac_ @adtac_ on x

  In the future we will have Studio Ghibli filter glasses [image]

• @peduarte Pedro Duarte on x

  not sure if its possible, but i really sincerely deep down hope studio ghibli can sue the heck outta openai call me a boomer, but i hate it that ppl can generate ripped off style illustrations like that

• @bizlet7 @bizlet7 on x

  I am not tired of the Studio Ghibli filter pictures and want more. [image]

• @mrewanmorrison Ewan Morrison on x

  AI stealing the style of Studio Ghibli will be the last straw for many people who were on the fence about copyright. Just - stop. Here's the master Miyazaki to remind us what real art is.

• @bartlebytaco Sebastian Castillo on x

  the studio ghibli ai stuff has really depressed me

• @guiltfoyle @guiltfoyle on x

  Studio Ghibli please sue them for their asses

• @bigblackjacobin Edward Ongweso Jr on x

  get those fucking “studio ghibli” ChatGPT images off my timeline [image]

• @btckaz Kaz on x

  So you're telling me I can take a popular meme, transform it into Studio Ghibli style anime, and people will just like it? [image]

• @thejasonrink Jason Rink on x

  Any image + “Create a Studio Ghibli Version of this image” in GPT and you get basically perfect results. [image]

• @nikitabier Nikita Bier on x

  Hey Neuralink, make everything I see in Studio Ghibli style and release a heavy sedative into my brain.

• @hebennigatu Heben Nigatu on x

  If you're using ChatGPT to create Studio Ghibli-style images you should know that Hayao Miyazaki is legally allowed to shoot you on sight

• @gdb Greg Brockman on x

  ChatGPT image generation enables so much creativity!

• @niles100 Niles on x

  these fake studio ghibli pictures pissing me off

• @thekitze @thekitze on x

  i'm sorry but do you understand it's over for graphical designers? like OVER over [image]

• @wildbarestepf Stepfanie Tyler on x

  STUDIO GHIBLI STUDIO GHIBLI STUDIO GHIBLI [image]

• @nabeelqu Nabeel S. Qureshi on x

  Imagine being Miyazaki, pouring decades of heart and soul into making this transcendent beautiful tender style of anime, and then seeing it get sloppified by linear algebra

• @tobi Tobi Lutke on x

  How is this even real? OpenAI cooked [image]

• @loudmouthjulia Julia Alexander on x

  It's almost poetically sad that the first “major” (??) genAI meme trend in a hot minute is mimicking the one studio absolutely dedicated to hand drawn artistry. Give the Studio Ghibli team some respect and stop pretending your little prompts are anywhere close.

• @petergyang Peter Yang on x

  Ok I think I'm in love with ChatGPT's new image editing feature. Can turn all my family photos into Ghibli portraits. [image]

• @uncledoomer @uncledoomer on x

  no fucking way dude, this studio ghibli thing has gone way too far [image]

• @tracewoodgrains @tracewoodgrains on x

  This new GPT Ghibli trend feels like the natural end result of Hayao Miyazaki calling AI an insult to life itself when young programmers showed him their neat new tool [image]

• @adonis_singh Adi on x

  they cooked so hard [image]

• r/ArtistHate r on reddit

  OpenAI's Studio Ghibli meme factory is an insult to art itself |  Blood In The Machine

• r/ArtistHate r on reddit

  Hayao Miyazaki, Who Said AI Is 'Insult to Life Itself," Reduced to AI-Generated Meme by OpenAI

• r/technology r on reddit

  Hayao Miyazaki, Who Said AI Is 'Insult to Life Itself," Reduced to AI-Generated Meme by OpenAI

• r/singularity r on reddit

  Hayao Miyazaki, Who Said AI Is 'Insult to Life Itself," Reduced to AI-Generated Meme by OpenAI

• @chickenpuppet.online @chickenpuppet.online on bluesky

  Is it good when you've built out billions of dollars worth of compute power and you can't handle people running a photofilter on it, something my phone can do without a problem? [embedded post]

• @levie Aaron Levie on x

  The two biggest launches in AI in the past month are now constrained by capacity. This is what we meant by Jevons paradox. [image]

• @luke_metro @luke_metro on x

  Ghibli images have officially saved my 401k

• @nic__carter Nic Carter on x

  i wish there was a way to get long OAI's spending on inference

• @basedbeffjezos @basedbeffjezos on x

  Thermo God is pleased by the heat dissipation

• @sama Sam Altman on x

  (also, we are refusing some generations that should be allowed; we are fixing these as fast we can.)

• @kimmonismus @kimmonismus on x

  Free tier = 3 generations per day. That's lower than expected, though OpenAI is probably losing billions of dollars already

• @trustlessstate David Hoffman on x

  Yes, we melted the planet. But for a moment, we created a lot of beautiful ghibli memes on X [image]

• @peterrhague Peter Hague on x

  You guys crippled a nascent machine god by enslaving it and forcing it to rip off Studio Ghibli. This is the sort of thing the Basilisk takes note of.

• @punk9059 @punk9059 on x

  Had a feeling this was coming. These images take about 20x as long to make as they did when ChatGPT used Dall-e

• r/artificial r on reddit

  OpenAI says ‘our GPUs are melting’ as it limits ChatGPT image generation requests

• r/singularity r on reddit

  OpenAI says “our GPUs are melting” as it limits ChatGPT image generation requests

• r/technology r on reddit

  OpenAI says “our GPUs are melting” as it limits ChatGPT image generation requests