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Director Hayao Miyazaki arrives to the special screening of \u201cPonyo\u201d held at the El Capitan Theatre on July 27, 2009 in Hollywood, Calif. FilmMagic<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Over the past week, the \u201cGhiblification\u201d trend has swept the internet, with celebrities, tech leaders, and even the White House generating images in the style of Japan\u2019s Studio Ghibli using OpenAI<\/a>\u2019s latest tool. Hayao Miyazaki<\/a>, the reclusive mastermind behind the iconic animation style, has yet to comment publicly on this A.I.-driven development. But based on his past statements, it\u2019s likely the 84-year-old filmmaker would view the trend with unease, wary of how A.I. might distort the deeply human essence at the heart of his work.<\/p>\n

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In a 2016 documentary, a Japanese media company sought Miyazaki\u2019s feedback on its use of A.I. in animation. The artist was shown a demo<\/a> depicting an animated zombie body dragging itself by the head as if it doesn\u2019t feel pain or know how to protect its head. Miyazaki, visibly disturbed, commented, \u201cWhoever creates this stuff has no idea what pain is or whatsoever. I am utterly disgusted\u2026I would never wish to incorporate this technology into my work at all. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.\u201d<\/p>\n

Founded in 1985 by Miyazaki, along with the director Isao Takahata<\/a> and the producer Toshio Suzuki<\/a>, Studio Ghibli is known for making films that intertwine Japanese folklore with hand-drawn detail and deeply emotional storytelling. In 1996, The Walt Disney Company (DIS)<\/a> signed a distribution deal to bring Miyazaki\u2019s work to a global audience. <\/span>The 2003 Oscar win for <\/span>Spirited Away<\/span><\/i>, the first anime to receive the Best Animated Feature award, cemented Studio Ghibli as an international cinematic force.<\/span><\/p>\n

Unlike Hollywood studios, which pivoted towards CGI animation in the early 2000s, Ghibli stuck with celluloid animation, a traditional technique in which artists draw each frame by hand on transparent sheets known as \u201ccells.\u201d Miyazaki personally sketched thousands of frames by hand for each project, <\/span>insisting that human-level detail<\/span><\/a> and authenticity could not be faked.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Although Miyazaki didn\u2019t entirely resist innovation, he was never in favor of fully digital workflows. In the late 1990s, Studio Ghibli integrated digital tools like Toonz (later open-sourced as OpenToonz), allowing its animators to digitally color and refine their drawings. However, Earwig and the Witch<\/i> (2020), the studio\u2019s first all-3D film, received lukewarm reviews, with fans underwhelmed by the lack of Ghibli\u2019s hand-drawn soul.<\/p>\n

Is it legal to create Ghibli-style images using A.I.?<\/h3>\n

The U.S. copyright law doesn\u2019t protect a visual style, so it\u2019s technically legal to give a Ghibli treatment to any image, especially if the user isn\u2019t using the work for commercial purposes. \u201cFrom a copyright standpoint, anyone is free to tell and illustrate their own images and stories using an animation style,\u201d <\/span>Randall McCarthy<\/span>, an IP attorney, told Observer. \u201cStudio Ghibli may only be able to assert copyright infringement when a particular character from their work is generated through A.I. and is highly similar to its movie resemblance.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The work created using ChatGPT isn\u2019t necessarily protected by copyright law, either, unless the user can demonstrate \u201csufficient human control\u201d during the creative process, McCarthy explained. \u201cMerely generating prompts to OpenAI is not enough to show sufficient human control, so none of these images and memes made with a \u2018Ghibli style\u2019 input prompt are protected by copyright.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Still, the speed and volume at which A.I. is able to generate these images raise an ethical debate. \u201cOpenAI training on Ghibli\u2019s data is a classic example of A.I. models training on data without any compensation or credit. Today, someone can mimic an iconic style like Ghibli with a few prompts and face little to no consequence,\u201d Jason Zhao, co-founder of the A.I.-powered IP tokenization platform <\/span>Story<\/span>, told Observer. \u201cIt\u2019s a failure to recognize the value of creative identity in the digital age.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

OpenAI, which is already facing multiple copyright lawsuits, claims to have limited its A.I. image model from replicating the styles of living artists.\u00a0<\/span>\u201cWe added a refusal<\/a> that triggers when users try to generate an image in the style of a living artist,\u201d the company said in a <\/span>recent technical paper<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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