From the same madness to the concerns of copyright, the release of the new OpenAi images generator this week was simply dramatic.
Shortly after “Images for Chatgpt” was unveiled on Tuesday, an X user said that the 4O of Openai tool generated a “sexy man” But would not create “sexy women”. This attracted the attention of the Openai chief, Sam Altman, who blamed a “bug” and promised a corrective.
Then came the tsunami of the images generated in the distinctive style of the famous Japanese animation house Ghibli. X users have flooded the Ghibli-Fied versions platform of their own photos, popular memes, public figures such as President Donald Trump and film scenes including “The Wolf of Wall Street”.
Even Altman joined the media threshing and exchanged his profile photo with a Ghibli-style photo even. The White House Official X account also jumped on the walking train and common A photo of Ghibli-Fied of a woman arrested by ice for illegally entered the United States.
Tsunami Ghibli
At first, it seemed to be a light moment of things reinvented through a Ghibli lens, until things took a darker turn.
Users of Openai Ghibli-Fied Images of historical events, including the assassination of JFK, the September 11 attacks and the Second World War.
Openai said on Wednesday that he had started Blocking of ghibli- style images And that he adopted a “conservative approach” by refusing that users try to create images to the resemblance of a living artist. An Openai spokesperson told Business Insider on Wednesday evening that users always generate images in “wider studio styles”.
Informed users have found bypass solutions. The Pranav dixit de Bi tried the tool on Thursday using the paid version and found He would still generate several images In the Ghibli style.
Openai then decided to Limit the number of images Users of its free level model could generate a day. Altman joked on X that the servers of Openai “founded” the overvoltage of demand.
It now appears that the free version of Chatgpt completely refuses image requests, citing copyright rules.
Copyright questions
While the Internet was having fun, a fierce debate on the question of knowing if Openai unjustly used the work of artists, including Hayao Miyazaki from the Ghibli studio, began.
Some X users have criticized these images of Ghibli, arguing that Miyazaki, a famous Japanese artist renowned for his meticulous animations drawn by hand who can take years to create, shed his heart and soul in his work.
Ghibli is known for its animated features, which include “My neighbor Totoro“And” Spirited Away “.
“Spirited Away” is one of the animated features of Ghibli studio. Ghibli studio
Ed Newton-Rex, the CEO of the fairly trained non-profit organization, which certifies AI companies with fair training practices, described the controversy as a “take-off for AI demonstrations”.
It recalls the Scarlett Johansson Saga last year, when the actor threatened to prosecute Openai on a vocal chatbot function that said that many said that she sounded him.
This raises the question of whether Ghibli-Gate will be the last headache of copyright for OpenAi following a dam of legal proceedings of the media, authors and musicians who say that their work has been used to form its models without consent.
Newton-Rex wrote in X Post Thursday that “the obvious and blatant IP flight by AI companies has united authors and artists”.
“Suspicious protests will only grow as the effects are felt by more and more professions,” he added.
There is also an increasing concern about what the new tool means for graphic designers and startups of IA image generators.
Klarna CEO, Sebastian, Siemiatkowski, said on X that he was “not as amused as many others” that Openai’s last offer had “erased” certain companies and had “serious implications for countless jobs”.