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'An Insult To Life Itself': Hayao Miyazaki’s AI Criticism Resurfaces As OpenAI’s Ghibli-Style Image Trend Takes Over Social Media


OpenAI's latest image-generation update has taken social media by storm, as users are flooding X, Instagram, and Reddit with Studio Ghibli-style images

OpenAI’s latest image-generation update has taken social media by storm, as users are flooding X, Instagram, and Reddit with Studio Ghibli-style images generated by AI. Users quickly discovered that the tool excels at replicating Studio Ghibli’s iconic hand-drawn aesthetic, prompting a surge of AI-generated portraits, landscapes, and reimagined pop culture moments in Ghibli-style. Hashtags like #GhibliStyle and #AIGhibli have since taken over social media feeds, with even OpenAI CEO Sam Altman joining in on the trend by sharing an AI-generated Ghibli-style version of himself – which is now his profile picture on X.

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