Just as one front in the battle between AI vs art closes, another opens. This week, the UK High Court ruled against Getty Images' claim that Stable Diffusion's training on images from its stock photo library constituted copyright infringement. But at the same time Studio Ghibli and other Japanese companies have finally had enough.
The Japanese animation studio's distinctive art style has been one of those most ripped off using AI image generators. We've seen that in the viral Studio Ghibli-style memes made using OpenAI's Chat GPT 4, but it's OpenAI's Sora 2 video model that finally earned an incensed but very polite response. Will OpenAI CEO Sam Altman finally be shamed into changing his X profile pic at least?
