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Pets, babies, friends, celebrities, memes, and everything else are getting the AI Ghibli treatment.
Ghibli style memes taking over the internet pic.twitter.com/96v8ip8ezXMarch 27, 2025
Some of the results are beautiful.
All of them are vaguely evocative of Ghibli.
But thats just it; they evoke, echo, and imitate.
Theyre the AI equivalent of hearing a cover band do a near-perfect version of Let It Be.
Studio Ghibli’s films are purposefully, almost radically, slow in both style and production.
The art isnt just stunning; each frame is imbued with care and craft.
These films are drawn by hand, over years, by people who breathe life into every frame.
Digested and regurgitated by AI misses the point to a comical degree.
It makes you wonder if it was trained on Ghiblis work.
If so, it was absolutely done without Ghibli founder Hayao Miyazaki’s permission.
His disdain for AI-generated art is not subtle.
That might sound dramatic, but it wasnt performative or reflecting a purely financial concern.
Everyone else: “Look at how cute these Studio Ghibli AI drawings are!
The companyclaimstheyve restricted users from asking ChatGPT to generate images that mimic specific living artists.
I know most people generating these images arent trying to insult anyone.
Theyre doing what fans have always done, showing their admiration with their own remixes.
