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OpenAI's Viral Studio Ghibli Moment Highlights AI Copyright Concerns


An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: It's only been a day since ChatGPT's new AI image generator went live, and social media feeds are already flooded with AI-generated memes in the style of Studio Ghibli, the cult-favorite Japanese animation studio behind blockbuster films such as "...

In the last 24 hours, we've seen AI-generated images representing Studio Ghibli versions of Elon Musk, " The Lord of the Rings", and President Donald Trump. According to Evan Brown, an intellectual property lawyer at the law firm Neal & McDevitt, products like GPT-4o's native image generator operate in a legal gray area today. Style is not explicitly protected by copyright, according to Brown, meaning OpenAI does not appear to be breaking the law simply by generating images that look like Studio Ghibli movies.

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