This is only one day the new generator of IA images of Chatgpt is launched online, and social media flows are already flooded with memes generated by AI in the style of the Ghibli studio, the favorite Japanese animation studio with successful films such as “My Watar Totoro” and “Spirited Away”.
In the past 24 hours, we have seen images generated by A-Representation of the Ghibli studio versions of Elon Musk“”The Lord of the Rings“, And President Donald Trump. The CEO of Openai, Sam Altman, even seems to have makes her new profile image a Ghibli-Studio style imagePresumably made with the native image generator of GPT-4O. Users seem to download existing images and images in Chatgpt and ask the Chatbot to recreate it in new styles.
The latest Openai update occurs at the release by Google of a similar image function in its Gemini Flash model, which also triggered a viral moment earlier in March when people used it to eliminate the watermark from the images.
The latest tools of Openai and Google facilitate that never recreate the styles of works protected by copyright – simply by typing a text prompt. Together, these new IA image characteristics seem to rekindle concerns at the heart of several proceedings against developers of generative AI models. If these companies train on works protected by copyright, violating the law on copyright?
According to Evan Brown, lawyer for the intellectual property of the law firm Neal & McDevitt, products like the generator of native GPT-4O images operate today in a legal gray area. The style is not explicitly protected by copyright, according to Brown, which means that Openai does not seem to violate the law simply by generating images that resemble Ghibli studio films.
However, Brown says it is plausible that Optai has made this resemblance by forming his model on millions of frames from Ghibli films. Even if this was the case, several courts still decide to know if the training of AI models on works protected by copyright falls under fair use protections.
“I think it raises the same question that we have been asking ourselves for a few years now,” said Brown in an interview. “What are the implications for copyright violation of going out, crawling on the web and copying in these databases?”
The New York Times and several publishers are in active prosecution against Openai, claiming that the company has formed its AI models on works protected by copyright without appropriate allocation or payment. There have been similar allegations brought to prosecution against other leading AI companies, including the Meta image generation start-up and Midjourney.
In a statement to Techcrunch, an Openai spokesperson says that even if Chatgpt refuses to reproduce “the style of individual living artists”, Openai allows him to reproduce “wider studio styles”. Of course, it should be noted that there are living artists who are credited for the unique styles of their studio, such as the co -founder of Studio Ghibli, Hayao Miyazaki.
Obviously, users were also able to use the native image generation functionality of GPT-4O to recreate the styles of other studios and artists. Someone else made a portrait Marc Andreessen in the style of Dr SeussAnd a married couple recreated their Wedding photos in Pixar style.
We have tested several generators of popular AI images – including those available in Google’s Gemini, Xai’s Grok and Playground.ai – to see their ability to match the Ghibli studio style. We found that the new OpenAi images generator had created the most precise reply in the style of the animation studio.
For the moment, the new image features of Openai and Google have a leap forward in what AI models can generate, which seems to lead to an increase in use. OPENAI delayed the deployment of its new image tool to free level users on Wednesday, citing high demand. It may be the most important thing for these companies today, but we will have to wait for the courts to weigh on their legality.
