#Ghiblify

[denvernygaard]

So, I found this pic from @quicksiluers which I reposted from @dragoons-and-cookies:

And then, last night I went to ChatGPT, so here it is the Ghibli version:

Well, Robert's moustache looks different in second picture, but yeah, it's still Robert Gould Shaw.

(1st and 2nd Forbes looks different as well (?))

[wasznu]

[seolapolo-blog]

Ghiblify: Art Trend or Data trap?

The internet is buzzing over the Ghibli Pics trend—where any photo transforms into a dreamy, anime-style image—so the question is: Is it safe to upload our pictures to these platforms?

Millions have already used platforms like Chatgpt to create Ghibli-style portraits, flooding social media with transformed profile photos. But this trend raises a key question: How safe are these platforms—and can settings help prevent data leaks Read more.

[pocket-size-cthulhu]

This is what your AI tool looks like to me

Sure, I have all the normal concerns with AI. I don't think it's going to take over the world and kill humans, but I do think it's going to cause a lot of misinformation; I know it's stealing data and art that was a hard-won labor of love; and I see it taking jobs, not because it can do them, but because execs believe it can. I could go on, but I won't because that's not what I'm here for.

I think what really gets me about the ✨ AI revolution ✨ or whatever is that ideologically, it's everything I stand against. It's consumption without scruples or restraints. It's theft in the name of business, except they aren't even trying to hide it anymore. It's ruin in the name of profit, but on steroids. They're burning the world for a ghiblified meme and a quick buck. It's practice without theory. The frenzy, the craze, makes me sick to my stomach; and it can't be stopped. No laws protect you from having everything stolen from you, chopped up like mincemeat and spat back out as the inelegant vomit of a mass of wires calling itself an "intelligence." No laws protect you from being fired by your employer in favor of a little word salad program doing your job half as well as you but twice as fast. No laws protect all the water they're contaminating to keep their facilities cool, or the rainforests they'll burn without a second thought to keep their shareholders happy. No laws will protect any of us for years, because the people violating our privacy and planet are also the ones with the money in hand. While guys in Lululemon hoodies are swapping fat wads of cash and bitcoin, wheeling and dealing to get access to everything that's ever been private on your phone, you can't even afford to buy eggs, and your job is on the rocks because your boss thinks a computer could do it for a fraction of the cost of putting food on your table. They're telling you you need to enthusiastically embrace the future, but they aren't handing you a future you can be excited about.

I know that the nature of work in capitalism is that many people will eventually have to do something in the name of their job that betrays their values. I am ready for that. I understand it. But this... This might be too far for me. I have tried. For the sake of my job I've tried to shut up and be ok with it on the clock. But it makes me sick to my stomach, the way all unbridled greed makes me sick these days. Watching people fight over luxuries and take more than their fair share and stuff... It makes me want to throw up. And it's the same. Exactly the same. I don't know what to do. What do they want from me at this point

[there-will-be-a-way]

New tattoos!

[yaminerua]

this AI ghibli trend is going to condition me into having a strong initial knee-jerk negative reaction to seeing Any ghibli-style art until I can be sure an actual human being drew it

[mojonder]

Seeing an AI tool advertising itself off of how well it replicates Ghiblis style blowing up and being used by thousands has just been depressing. Hayao miyazaki should personally behead each and every single one of you

[anggibanggi]

Ancestral Home 2024

[seralu]

sorry guys i’m still not over it, so sweet 😢❤️

[wasznu]

[chuuphic]

i had a friend tell me once that i'm like smart to have a grasp on climate change and personal effect on that etc whatever in relation to generative ai and like. well no i think i just care lol i don't think you have to be smart to care. if somebody tells me that something is bad for the environment in a very tangible way and i can very easily live without that thing, then i'm not going to use it.

[cyberswift-story]

Embracing Trends, the Ghibli Way!

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🔹 Innovation meets imagination—are you ready? Let’s create something extraordinary together!

[cuteyellowslugisawizard]

Oh. Woah, okay I didn't know that!

"how do you people live" is a very different title from "the boy and the heron" lmao ok

[smallpwbbles]

Been watching a LOTTA ghibli films while I babysit my nephew and my brain kinda went off and was like ghiblify Shadow and Maria and I started brainstorming a slice of life sort of au where in the 1990s Gerlad is a mad scientist working to cure Maria of her NIDS and he accidentally creates a powerful ass lil unstable hedgehog who becomes Shadow.

Probs doodle a bit more of it when I figure more stuff out but I love doodling in the ghibli style, think imma call this au 'My brother, the hedgehog'

[st-just]

There's probably something to dig into about how 90% of the backlash to the the new 'studio ghiblify your photos' thing chatGPT can do treats the entire artistic and creative output of the studio as being synonymous with and the moral property of one specific guy.

[probablyasocialecologist]

Earlier this week, OpenAI launched its new image generation feature, which is integrated directly into ChatGPT and allows users to input more complex instructions for editing and organizing the presentation of the output. The first big viral trend to come out of the new service was users turning photos of family vacations, historical events, and pop cultural images into animated stills in the style of Studio Ghibli films. (The whole thing was a bit of a throwback to the heady days of 2023 when you would see AI influencers sharing photos of famous figures in the style of Wes Anderson films or whatever.) ChatGPT let users “Ghibilify” the images, so we got Ghiblified Hawk Tuah girl, Ghiblified Elon Musk (obviously), and so on. The issue here should be obvious. I won’t pretend to know exactly how Miyazaki thinks about modern generative AI systems—the tool he was commenting on was a cruder prototype—though one might venture to argue that he’d feel even more strongly about tools that further automate human art with greater ease, and often drive it further into the uncanny valley. Regardless, the man on record with likely the strongest and bluntest disavowal of using AI tools for art, is now the same man whose notoriously painstakingly handcrafted art is being giddily automated by ChatGPT users for what amounts to a promotional campaign for a tech company that’s on the verge of being valued at $300 billion. Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO, not only participated, changing his X avatar to a ‘Ghiblified’ self portrait, but insisted that this was the plan all along. Which in turn raises the specter of copyright infringement. Speaking to TechCrunch, a copyright lawyer very diplomatically said that while it’s unlikely infringement to produce images in the style of a studio, it’s “entirely plausible” that OpenAI’s models were trained on millions of frames of Ghibli films. He noted that it’s still an open question whether or not that in fact violates current IP law, or constitutes fair use, as the tech companies argue. On that front, judges recently dealt tech companies a blow, ruling in favor of Thomson Reuters that a pre-ChatGPT AI system was creating images that competed with the original material, and thus was not in fact fair use. OpenAI and Google, meanwhile, are desperately trying to win this battle, appealing to the Trump administration directly, and going so far as to argue that if they’re not allowed to ingest copyrighted works into their training data, China will beat the US in AI. Now, if—and of course this is a whopping if—OpenAI had consulted Studio Ghibli and its artists on all this, if those artists had consented and say reached a licensing deal before the art and frames from their films were ingested into the training data (as is pretty apparently the case), then look, this would indeed be a bout of generally wholesome fun for everyone involved. Instead, it’s an insult.

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OpenAI and the other AI giants are indeed eating away at the livelihoods and dignity of working artists, and this devouring, appropriating, and automation of the production of art, of culture, at a scale truly never seen before, should not be underestimated as a menace—and it is being experienced as such by working artists, right now.

27 March 2025