It’s been just one day since the new generator of the Chatgpt’s image went directly, and social media resources have already been flooded with memes created by the style of Studio Gibli, the Japanese Hour studio favorite for the cult films such as “IM Totoro Neighbor” and “Spirited Away”.
In the last 24 hours, we have seen images created by what represents the versions of Elon Musk’s Gibli studio, “Lord of the Rings” and President Donald Trump. Openai’s general manager, Sam Altman, even seems to have made his new photo of the profile a style of the Ghibli studio style, apparently made with the GPT-4o local image generator. Users appear to be uploading existing images and photos to chatgpt and asking chatbot to create it in new styles.
Openai’s latest update comes to the Google’s heels of a similar image feature of him in his model Flash Gemini, which also sparked a viral moment in March, when people used it to remove the filigree from the images.
Openai and Google’s latest tools make it easier than ever to create copyright-protected work styles-you are pressing a quick text. Together, these new features of his image seem to defend the concerns of some lawsuits against the model generating developers. If these companies are training for copyright protected offenses, are they violating the copyright law?
According to Evan Brown, an intellectual property lawyer at the Neal & McDevitt legal firm, products like the local GPT-4o image generator operate today in a gray legal area. The style is not clearly protected by copyright, according to Brown, means that Openai does not seem to be violating the law simply generating images that look like Gibli studio movies.
However, Brown says it is reliable that Openai reached this similarity by training her model in millions of frames from Ghibli’s films. Even if that were the case, some courts still decide whether the training of the models of it for copyright protected offenses falls under the right use.
“I think this raises the same question that we’ve asked ourselves for a few years now,” Brown said in an interview. “What are the implications of copyright violations to get out, to dragged online and to copy into these databases?”
The New York Times and some publishers are in active lawsuits against Openai, claiming that the company has trained its models of it for copyright protected works without attribute or proper payment. There have been similar claims raised in lawsuits against other major companies, including meta and the start of the Midjourney image generation.
In a statement to Techcrunch, an Openai spokesman says that while Chatgt refuses to repeat the “style of living individual artists”, Openi allows him to repeat the “broader studio styles”. Of course, it is worth noting that there are living artists who are entrusted to pioneered the unique styles of their studio, such as the co -founder of the studio Ghibli, Hayao Miyazaki.
Apparently, users have also been able to use the GPT-4o image generating feature to create styles from other studios and artists again. Someone else made a portrait of Marc Andreessen in the style of Dr. Seuss, and a married couple re-cherished their pixar-style wedding photos.
We tested several well -known image generators he – including those available in Google Gemini, Grok to Xai and Playground.ai – to see their ability to match the style of studio Ghibli. We found the new image generator of Openai created the most accurate copy of the animation studio style.
Right now, the new features of the image of Openai and Google present a forward jump in what models he can generate, which seems to be aroused an increase in use. Openai delayed the participation of her new image tool for free level users on Wednesday, citing high demand. This may be the most important thing for these companies today, but we will have to wait for the courts to weigh their legality.
