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With a current update, the Chatgpt developer Openai has ensured that countless AI generated images in anime style have been flooding all social networks for a few days. We summarize the details below.
Ghibli-Ki pictures go viral
On March 25, 2025, Openai released the most advanced image generator GPT-4O, which is characterized above all by highly precise and stylized pictures-and also imitated the hand-drawn aesthetics of Studio Ghibli.
This ensured that in the last few days, hashtags such as #Ghiblistyle and #aighibli conquer the Internet together with AI generated portraits, landscapes or newly interpreted pop culture moments in the GHIBLI style.
The rush was huge and countless users experimented with the AI tool, including even the former US boxer Mike Tyson and the official Instagram account of the White House. No wonder that the graphics cards at Openaai have already run hot and CEO Sam Altman announced a limited use:
“It’s fun to see that people love the chatt pictures. But melt our GPUs. We will temporarily introduce some limits while we are working on making everything more efficient. Hopefully it won’t take long! In the free version, three image generations will be possible per day. “
Insult for artists?
The biggest suffering in this matter is of course Studio Ghibli, because even though artificial intelligence has not yet really reached the level of the extremely successful studio, it hits the iconic style surprisingly well.
The mere possibility of realizing this with little or no effort could even be seen as an insult to the artists around Hayao Miyazaki – after all, they have developed their fame hard.
In the documentary “10 Years with Hayao Miyazaki”, the filmmaker explained that a Ghibli film consists of 60,000 to 70,000 pictures, all of which were hand-drawn with water colors. The animator Eiji Yamamori would have needed 15 months for the four -hour “crowd scene” in “how the wind” lifts itself – and was with the words by Miyazaki despite the long duration “It was worth it” praised.
Is this tireless work now mercilessly exploited by the AI tools? In any case, it is not too surprising that Hayao Miyazaki has a deep dislike of artificial intelligence and it has already been more than eight years ago than one “Insulting life itself” designated.
But how do you see this topic? Everything half as wild or should you look at the development rather critically? Let us know your opinion in the comments!
