And we imagine the animation studio’s founder, 84-year-old Hayao Miyazaki, isn’t happy with the current phenomenon, as comments he made about AI in a 2016 documentary resurfaced last month.

Studio Ghibli in Japan declined to comment Friday. As users posted their Ghibli-style images on social media, Miyazaki’s previous comments on AI animation also began to resurface.

Studios like Universal are worried about exactly that, especially since the companies that operate these AI models have not ...

Three possible arguments against the tech companyThe average person seeing a torrent of images in the Studio Ghibli style, with captions praising ChatGPT, might reasonably infer that Miyazaki himself ...

This is why AI supposedly doesn’t violate copyright laws. Within the AI models there is nothing left of an artist’s work to copy.

Spare a thought for Hayao Miyazaki, the 84-year-old Japanese anime director and co-founder of Studio Ghibli, which has produced such hits as My Neighbour Totoro and Spirited Away. After decades spent ...

Does your business commit copyright infringement when it publishes something in the Studio Ghibli style, such as a social media post promoting your business? If that’s not legal, are you ...

Individual works of art are protected by copyright, but visual styles, such as Studio Ghibli’s, are not. The legal logic here is that styles should be allowed to evolve through influence and ...

This is why AI supposedly doesn’t violate copyright laws. Within the AI models there is nothing left of an artist’s work to copy.