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How OpenAI's Ghibli frenzy took a dark turn real fast
OpenAI's new image generator sparked a meme frenzy and a debate about copyright. Some argue that Sam Altman's company is exploiting artists' work.
X users flooded the platform with images they Ghibli-fied of their own photos, popular memes, public figures like President Donald Trump, and scenes from films including "The Wolf of Wall Street." Some X users criticized those Ghibli-fying images, arguing that the famed Japanese artist, renowned for his meticulous hand-drawn animations that can take years to create, poured his heart and soul into his work. It begs the question of whether Ghibli-gate will be the latest copyright headache for OpenAI following a barrage of lawsuits from news outlets, authors, and musicians who say their work was used to train its models without consent.
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