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The Great Ghibli-fication and the Future of AI Art

OpenAI’s new image generator flooded social media with Studio Ghibli-style art, raising copyright questions and the prospects for IP onchain.
The Great Ghibli-fication and the Future of AI Art
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After OpenAI launched its latest image gen capabilities in ChatGPT this week, the Great Ghibli-fication exploded across social media.

You've seen it by now. Countless ideas, photos, memes all transformed into the iconic style of Studio Ghibli, the masterful Japanese animation studio.

The novelty, ease, and excellent aesthetic results brought plenty of joy to the timeline. But the viral wave also surfaced an ethical question: are these reproductions copyright infringements?

Legally speaking, it's still a gray area.

But morally speaking, it certainly feels wrong that Studio Ghibli isn't getting direct upside here. There's a fairer way forward, as Jason Zhao—a cofounder of the IP blockchain Story—argued this week:

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William M. Peaster

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William M. Peaster, Senior Writer, has been with Bankless since January 2021. Immersed in Ethereum since 2017, he writes the Metaversal newsletter on the onchain frontier, covering everything from AI projects to crypto games, as the team’s lead NFT analyst. With a background in creative writing, he writes fiction and publishes art on Ethereum in his free time.

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