6 days Ago By James Paul
Millions of users worldwide hopped on the latest trend of turning their public and private pictures into Studio Ghibli art. The latest image generation feature by OpenAI’s ChatGPT 4o went viral with celebrities and laymen alike flooding the internet with their images transformed in the likeness of a Studio Ghibli character. The wild trend was embraced by naive brands without giving two hoots about copyright violations or the trend demeaning human artists.
Creatives across the domain rallied in protest amid the cacophony of AI bros calling the naysayers Luddites. The studio or its legendary director, Hayao Miyazaki, is yet to officially respond to the row. But industry leaders are speaking out.
Megumi Ishitani took to social media and expressed her frustration over the recent AI trend that has dragged legendary Japanese animation studio ‘Studio Ghibli’ into the muck of copyright violation and plagiarism by ChatGPT. The director of eponymous shows such as One Piece (1999), Scutes On My Mind (2015), One Piece Fan Letter (2024), and Dragon Ball Super (2015), remarked on X/Twitter I want legal action to be taken..
. I can't stand seeing Ghibli treated so cheaply.” While some dub the evolving AI tools as the death of the traditional creative industry and argue it as the democratization of art, they conveniently forget the blood, sweat, and toil behind producing a piece of music, animation, and more.
It takes imagination and dexterity of skills forged in discipline to produce invaluable art whether as a hobby or on a production scale. No prompting is gonna change that, ever. Go pick up a pencil, will ya? 法的手段に出て欲しい.
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..ジブリがこんな安っぽく扱われるの耐えられない — 䂖谷牛乳 (@ishigyunyu) April 2, 2025 “I want legal action to be taken.
.. I can’t stand seeing Ghibli treated so cheaply" One Piece director Megumi Ishitani has called out the Studio Ghibli AI art trend, demanding legal action against the “unauthorized” use of Miyazaki’s art pic.
twitter.com/zb8n7oFOxW — Dexerto (@Dexerto) April 2, 2025 Megumi then questioned the legality of ChatGPT’s lifting of Miyazaki’s art style: https://t.co/27cvcEoZLz — Dexerto (@Dexerto) April 2, 2025 See Also: Studio Gibberish! As ChatGPT Users Flood The Internet With Ghibli-Styled Pics Miyazaki’s Remarks On AI Goes Viral See Also: Vishal Dadlani Slams ChatGPT-Generated Ghibli Selfies: ‘Can’t Support Plagiarization Of An Artist’s Life’s Work’ See Also: Artists Across The Globe Protest Sam Altman With ‘No AI Art’ As Ghibli-Generator ChatGPT Goes Free Today Cover: Patrick Gawande / Mashable India.
