Brian MerchantMar 27, 2025

OpenAI is using Studio Ghibli-style memes as an ad hoc promotional campaign for its new image generator—despite Ghibli founder Hayao Miyazaki's famous hatred of AI. Sam Altman even made his X avatar a 'Ghiblified' portrait.

Disgracing Miyazaki is part of the point: It's more proof to the industry's biggest boosters that they have won—that they're free to use, appropriate, and commoditize art however they see fit.

https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/openais-studio-ghibli-meme-factory

OpenAI's Studio Ghibli meme factory is an insult to art itself

Sam Altman is promoting his new image generator by appropriating the work of one of the greatest living animators—who is "disgusted" by AI.

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@brianmerchant The little kid in me that loves technology is ashamed of where the industry went and is going, and the adult in me is happy that he never took a silicon valley job, as he knows the little kid would have been very vulnerable to all that shit if he lived there.
Mar 28, 2025 at 8:29amWeb