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OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman today announced that he was withdrawing the free-tier rollout of the new image-generation tool trained partly by the renowned Japanese animation school Studio Ghibli after images flooded the internet just a day after its release.

OpenAI released a new image generator this week, and AI-generated Studio Ghibli slop is now all over the internet. In the livestream demo of the native image generation in ChatGPT and Sora, OpenAI took a selfie and asked the new generator to turn it into an anime frame.

I f you’re wondering why social media is filled with Studio Ghibli-style memes all of a sudden, there are several answers to that question. The most obvious one is that OpenAI dropped an update to ChatGPT on Tuesday that allows users to generate better images using the 4o version of the model.

AI-generated Ghibli-style art is trending on social media, but critics argue it undermines artists, leading to a backlash against OpenAI.

OpenAI's new image generator allows users to make portraits in the style of Studio Ghibli's Hayao Miyazaki. Reactions are mixed.