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The global surge in AI technology—particularly its consumer-facing form, generative AI—is forcing the world into complex moral and legal debates. These questions must be addressed if we are to use this technology ethically and sustainably in the years ahead. When models like ChatGPT first gained popularity, one of the earliest concerns raised was about the data used to train them.
The answer—that all publicly available material on the internet, including copyrighted books and creative content, had been scraped to train these models—sparked alarm. Essentially, work created by others was being remixed and re-presented by AI systems, without credit or compensation to the original creators. While this practice may have been defensible if the AI’s output was limited to general language learning, it becomes far more contentious when the technology begins to replicate highly specific elements and artistic styles.
The fact that modern models can now mimic an artist’s entire aesthetic raises serious ethical questions: Is it justifiable for an AI to reproduce someone’s creative signature—something cultivated over decades—with the click of a button? BZU administration evicts illegal occupants This debate has been reignited by the recent popularity of “Ghibli-style” artwork, which surged last week after ChatGPT debuted a tool capable of generating illustrations in the distinct style of Hayao Miyazaki. Miyazaki’s animations, the product of years of painstaking hand-drawn effort and unparalleled creativity, are now being algorithmically cloned. As social media fills with AI-generated imitations, many are questioning whether limits must be placed on how AI can be trained and used, especially when it replicates identifiable styles rather than generic ones.
This also brings up the possibility of litigation—do artists like Miyazaki have a legal claim to compensation or control over the use of their unique style? As generative AI continues to evolve, similar dilemmas will emerge in music, literature, film, and countless other creative fields—where AI systems are not just inspired by, but blatantly borrowing from, human creators and passing the results off as original. Gaza rally flays criminal silence of Muslim world over Palestinians’ bloodshed Tags: morality.
