OpenAI’s Studio Ghibli Style Generated Images Flood Social Media with Memes

IBL News | New York

AI-generated memes in the style of Studio Ghibli—the cult-favorite Japanese animation studio behind films such as “My Neighbor Totoro” and “Spirited Away”—are flooding social media, forcing OpenAI to put a rate limit on image generation requests, according to CEO Sam Altman.

“It’s super fun seeing people love images in ChatGPT, but our GPUs are melting,” he posted on X today.

The newly improved image generation of GPT-4o, released this week, is resulting in creations that are more realistic than before, and even users can take them in any number of directions.

Usually, users upload existing images and pictures into ChatGPT and ask the chatbot to recreate them in new styles. OpenAI’s and Google’s latest tools make it easier than ever to re-create the styles of copyrighted works — simply by typing a text prompt.