The recent capability of ChatGPT to produce Ghibli-style cartoon pictures has sparked a flurry of online jokes and raised copyright concerns. News publishers, musicians, and artists are suing OpenAI, the firm that controls the AI chatbot, for copyright infringement. ?Ghibli-style anime is the storytelling technique and animation style associated with Studio Ghibli, the renowned Japanese animation studio established by Toshio Suzuki, Isao Takahata, and Hayao Miyazaki. ?

The company produced beloved animated movies like "Princess Mononoke" and "My Neighbor Totoro." Soft, expressive characters with expressive eyes and vivid color schemes are among the distinctive aspects of this hand-drawn artwork. 

The company's top-performing model, GPT-4o, powers the most recent version that can produce Ghibli-style cartoons. In contrast to the past, it enables users to produce complex outcomes by entering exact suggestions. For the time being, this capability will only be available to premium users; free users can still utilize the chatbot's standard image-generation features. 

This Ghibli-style functionality was supposed to be freely available, but OpenAI decided to restrict it to its premium users due to the model's surprising success. To follow the trend, CEO Sam Altman also updated his X profile image.