The internet has become a Studio Ghibli-inspired playground. Admirers of the Japanese animation studio are using a new update from ChatGPT to create portraits and memes inspired by the distinct artistic style popularized by filmmaker and studio co-creator Hayao Miyazaki.

OpenAI’s newest image generation technology has gone viral this week for its ability to replicate the animation style of Japanese animation house Studio Ghibli, with social media users flooding the internet with their own Ghibli-fied photos.

Examples include a Ghibli-style depiction of Turkish pistol shooter Yusuf Dikec winning a silver medal at the 2024 Olympics and a reimagining of the famous "Disaster Girl" meme in the soft, hand-drawn aesthetic associated with Hayao Miyazaki's films, such as Spirited Away and My Neighbor Totoro.

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.

AI-generated Ghibli-style art is trending on social media, but critics argue it undermines artists, leading to a backlash against OpenAI.

Social media is currently flooded with AI-generated Studio Ghibli-inspired images as part of a trend sparked by the launch of OpenAI’s new GPT‑4o image generator — and it’s caused a vociferous debate that has seen old anti-AI comments from Hayao Miyazaki resurface.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has stepped into the world of Studio Ghibli-inspired art, as the Union government on Friday shared a series of.

In the 2016 documentary Hayao Miyazaki—The One Who Never Ends, the Studio Ghibli director watches a demonstration of a 3D model animated with AI. Once the demo is over, Miyazaki speaks about a disabled friend who has difficulty even giving someone a high five.