OpenAI's Ghibli Frenzy Sparks Copyright Debate and AI Ethics Concerns
OpenAI's Ghibli-style AI art sparked a viral trend before facing copyright backlash and ethical concerns.
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OpenAI's Ghibli Frenzy Sparks Copyright Debate and AI Ethics Concerns
Soon after "Images for ChatGPT" was unveiled on Tuesday, an X user said OpenAI's 4o tool generated a "sexy man" but wouldn't create "sexy women." That caught the attention of OpenAI's chief, Sam Altman, who blamed a "bug" and promised a fix. Image:Google Then came the tsunami of images generated in the distinctive style of the renowned Japanese animation house Studio Ghibli. X users flooded the platform with Ghibli-fied versions of their own photos, popular memes, public figures such as President Donald Trump, and scenes from films including "The Wolf of Wall Street." Even Altman joined in on the hype and swapped out his profile picture with a Ghibli-style photo of himself. The White House's official X account jumped on the bandwagon, too, and shared a Ghibli-fied photo of a woman arrested by ICE for illegally entering the US. At first it seemed like a lighthearted moment of things being reimagined through a Ghibli lens, u…