One ought to adhere to a certain level of reverence when talking about Hayao Miyazaki. The man has dedicated his life to a form of animation that values patience over production speed, detail over efficiency,

The internet can't get enough of Ghibli-style AI images—those dreamy, watercolour-like visuals popping up thanks to OpenAI-owned ChatGPT's latest update. Social media is buzzing with excitement and criticism as well.

AI-generated Ghibli-style images flood social media, sparking debate over artistic integrity. While AI mimics Miyazaki’s style, it lacks storytelling depth. As technology evolves, the question remains — can AI replicate the emotional magic that defines true animation artistry?

This week, OpenAI released an update to GPT-4o, one of the models powering ChatGPT, that allows the program to create high-quality images. I’ve been surprised by how effective the tool is: It follows directions precisely, renders people with the right number of fingers, and is even capable of replacing text in an image with different words.

Hayao Miyazaki strongly condemns an AI-generated animation project, describing it as an insult to life. He emphasizes the significance of human emotion and lived experiences in art, critiquing AI's inability to replicate the raw,

Hayao Miyazaki slams AI-generated animation as an 'insult to life itself' in an old video, saying machines cannot grasp human emotions as social media buzzes with Ghibli-style art

If you have been active on social media, particularly X, in the last 24 hours, it may give you the impression that it's a Studio Ghibli world, and we are living in it. It all has come about, courtesy of OpenAI's latest image-generation update.

OpenAI released a new image generator this week, and AI-generated Studio Ghibli slop is now all over the internet. In the livestream demo of the native image generation in ChatGPT and Sora, OpenAI took a selfie and asked the new generator to turn it into an anime frame.