What is ChatGPT’s ‘Studio Ghibli’ and why is the internet obsessed?
The latest image generator released on OpenAI's ChatGPT has sparked a wave of memes online. Twitter has been flooded with beautiful AI-recreated images of people, their pets, their families, memes and even movie scenes in the iconic style of Japanese animation house, Studio Ghibli. On X, he wrote: ">be me >grind for a decade trying to help make superintelligence to cure cancer or whatever >mostly no one cares for first 7.5 years, then for 2.5 years everyone hates you for everything >wake up one day to hundreds of messages: ‘look i made you into a twink ghibli style haha.’” What is Ghibli art? Founded in 1985 by Hayao Miyazaki, Isao Takahata, and Toshio Suzuki, Studio Ghibli is a highly regarded Japanese animation studio, known for its hand-drawn animation, intricate backgrounds, and emotionally resonant storytelling. Amid the trend’s virality, an old video from 2016 resurfaced, showing Studio Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazaki expressing strong disapproval during an AI demonstration by his team.
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