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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Technology
Andrew Williams

Why is everyone posting Studio Ghibli AI images? ChatGPT update fuels copyright concerns

A still from My Neighbour Totoro - (Studio Ghibli)

Social media has been flooded with AI-generated images that ape the style of Studio Ghibli, as seen in movies like Spirited Away and, most recently, The Boy and the Heron.

Where have they come from? You can thank the image generator model baked into OpenAI’s ChatGPT, courtesy of a newly released GPT 4o update.

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