Hayao Miyasaki is the co-founder of Studio Ghibli, a Japanese animation studio known worldwide for their stunning, emotional, beautiful stories and movies. At the core of Studio Ghibli’s work is a deep engagement with questions of humanity. About what it means to be a human, about how to care for one another and the world […]
This suggests that all they’ve ever actually been doing is blocking keywords of artists names, and that it has always been trivial to get around such restrictions if you know how to prompt correctly.
I can’t find anything about Ghibli or Miyazaki’s names being on that restricted list.
Also if keyword blocking is the best they could muster, they were never serious about blocking certain styles.
From the article listed, a quote from ChatGPT:
Our policy restricts creating images in the style of artists, creative professionals, or studios whose latest work was created after 1912. Jim Lee’s work falls well after this cutoff date, hence the inability to generate an image based on his style
Right, but the point I’m trying to ask about is whether they’re treating Ghibli specially here. People are reacting as if OpenAI is thumbing its nose specifically at Miyazaki here, whereas the impression I’ve got is that they simply opened the floodgates and dropped restrictions on styling in general.
Style has never been covered by copyright to begin with, so any concerns they might have had about being sued over style would have always been erring on the side of caution. They may simply think that the legal environment has calmed down enough that they won’t be inundated with frivolous lawsuits any more.
They loosened moderation on style-based prompts. That’s the ‘real’ story. The End. But…
…some users on Reddit/X (hard to pin down exactly where, as these things go) made it a meme to ‘Ghibli-fy’ images because it is easy now (despite being trivially easy to do in ComfyUI for over a year) and then, in an attempt to monetize the meme/outrage, “”“news websites”“” started producing articles like this one were written using old quotes to imply that there is some sort of ongoing drama between OpenAI and Studio Ghibli.
It’s just manufactured drama built on Internet memes and outrage farming media sites.
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/chatgpt-wont-copy-artist-styles-including-jim-lee-frank-frazetta/
This suggests that all they’ve ever actually been doing is blocking keywords of artists names, and that it has always been trivial to get around such restrictions if you know how to prompt correctly.
I can’t find anything about Ghibli or Miyazaki’s names being on that restricted list.
Also if keyword blocking is the best they could muster, they were never serious about blocking certain styles.
From the article listed, a quote from ChatGPT:
Right, but the point I’m trying to ask about is whether they’re treating Ghibli specially here. People are reacting as if OpenAI is thumbing its nose specifically at Miyazaki here, whereas the impression I’ve got is that they simply opened the floodgates and dropped restrictions on styling in general.
Style has never been covered by copyright to begin with, so any concerns they might have had about being sued over style would have always been erring on the side of caution. They may simply think that the legal environment has calmed down enough that they won’t be inundated with frivolous lawsuits any more.
They loosened moderation on style-based prompts. That’s the ‘real’ story. The End. But…
…some users on Reddit/X (hard to pin down exactly where, as these things go) made it a meme to ‘Ghibli-fy’ images because it is easy now (despite being trivially easy to do in ComfyUI for over a year) and then, in an attempt to monetize the meme/outrage, “”“news websites”“” started producing articles like this one were written using old quotes to imply that there is some sort of ongoing drama between OpenAI and Studio Ghibli.
It’s just manufactured drama built on Internet memes and outrage farming media sites.