OpenAI just made it harder to turn your pics into Studio Ghibli-style images
The internet was flooded with Ghibli-esque photos after ChatGPT's image generator update this week.
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- OpenAI has blocked some users' requests for Studio Ghibli-style images.
- The internet was flooded with Ghibli-esque photos after ChatGPT's image generator update.
- I tested turning my pictures into art on ChatGPT, Grok, and Claude with extremely varied results.
Cartoons of pets, families, and famous memes made to look like the cartoons from famed Japanese animation house Studio Ghibli flooded social media this week.
The chatter around the generated images, which came from ChatGPT's image generation model released on Tuesday, even merited a good joke from OpenAI's CEO, Sam Altman.
But the cutesy images didn't last long.
By Wednesday night, the system started to block some users' requests for images in the style of Ghibli and some — though not all — other artists.
OpenAI said in an explanation about GPT-4o's latest image generation technology that it is taking a "conservative approach" to images using artists' work in this model.
"We added a refusal which triggers when a user attempts to generate an image in the style of a living artist," the company said.
An OpenAI spokesperson told Business Insider on Wednesday night that the company continues to prevent "generations in the style of individual living artists" but does permit "broader studio styles."
"We're always learning from real-world use and feedback, and we'll keep refining our policies as we go," the spokesperson added.
The internet has been awash with Studio Ghibli-esque photos after ChatGPT upgraded its image generator on Tuesday.
It's been 24 hours since OpenAI unexpectedly shook the AI image world with 4o image generation.
Here are the 14 most mindblowing examples so far (100% AI-generated):
1. Studio ghibli style memespic.twitter.com/E38mBnPnQh— Barsee
