Studio Ghibli-inspired memes and portraits made with ChatGPT are flooding the internet

The internet has become a Studio Ghibli-inspired playground.

The internet has become a Studio Ghibli-inspired playground. 

Admirers of the Japanese animation studio are using a new update from ChatGPT to create portraits and memes inspired by the distinct artistic style popularized by filmmaker and studio co-creator Hayao Miyazaki. 

The trend emerged within a day of OpenAI’s introducing new native image-generation capabilities Tuesday within GPT-4o, the latest version of ChatGPT. Users who pay for the premium tiers, which start at $20 a month, are able to upload any images into the system and asked the tool to transform them “into the style of Studio Ghibli.” Users can also use the tool with Sora, ChatGPT’s text-to-video AI model. 

Some of the most shared images posted to social media Wednesday re-created political events in U.S. history, including President Donald Trump’s Feb. 28 meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Others transformed popular memes, including a recent one referring to fitness influencer Ashton Hall’s morning routine and the decade-old Distracted Boyfriend meme.

But many people simply used it to make their favorite photos with their family members, friends and pets look as if they came out of a Ghibli film.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/studio-ghibli-chatgpt-inspired-memes-portraits-rcna198273

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