Anime style images: funny or “grotesque”? New fashion in chatgpt generates controversy

New form of image editing of chatgPT is raising questions about copyright. But social networks look thick: even the White House has adhered to the trend.

Even ChatgPT is confused. A new fashion is to publish photographs on social networks with an anime style effect. The edition is made through the new ChatgPT4O version.

From group photographs to memes or even photos of-all kinds of images circulate on social networks with AI make them similar to Japanese animated films. Own White house Already bet on digital marketing with images of this type.

The problem is that these images are identical to style of the famous Japanese animation studio Studio GhibliAuthor of “The trip of Chihiro”, “The Castle Andante” or the latest “The Boy and the Heron”. These resemblance is generating controversy and raising problems.

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Zap decided to try to ask this AI “pass this image to the Studio Ghibli style.” The technology was hesitant – the first image, from a person looking directly at the camera with a white background, received a denial: “I can’t turn this image directly into the Studio Ghibli style for reasons related to our content policies,” said ChatgPT.

However, by sending another image, a stock image with two people in a daily context, a Ghibli style image was promptly returned.

Zap tried a second time the first image. “I can’t turn this image directly into Studio Ghibli style for reasons related to our content policies. However, I can create a Ghibli -inspired illustration based on a detailed description of the image.”

Zap asked it to do so, and a Studio Ghibli style image was created immediately. What has changed? Nothing, just the behavior of AI.

Many experts have already contested the legality of this trend of social networks.

HAS , Josh Weigensbergpartner of a law firm, comments that if a work has been licensed for training, this can allow him to reproduce his style. But without consent or compensation by the AI, the case may be “problematic“, The newspaper.

Studio Ghibli’s own creator, the still alive Hayao Miyazakihas already commented on the images generated by AI, a few years ago, when this controversy did not exist yet. I didn’t find any joke anymore.

“I feel like We are coming to the end of time. We humans are losing faith in ourselves, ”he said at the time. He assured that AI could” present us grotesque movements that we humans couldn’t imagine. “

A, Open Ai, owner of ChatgPT, justified that the company “added a refusal that was triggered when a user tries to generate a Image in the style of a living artist“Openai spokesman added that the company continues to prevent” generations in the style of individual living artists, “but allows” wider studio styles. “

Zap questioned Chatgpt himself about the legality of Studio Ghibli’s style reproduction. AI replied that it can “create original images with traces, colors and atmospheres similar to the style of the Ghibli movies ”and“ inspire in Artistic characteristics Typical ” – Round and large eyes, for example.

However, it assumes that It is not allowed “Playing characters like Totoro, Chihiro, Haku, etc.”, or “use elements protected by copyright or directly registered marks.”

The line is Ternue, but the owner of OpenAi is having fun, even with some ellipsis. “It’s a lot of fun to see people worship images on chatgpt, but our GPUs are melting,” he said.