The internet is buzzing with an exciting new trend and has made users go crazy online with AI-generated images in the iconic Studio Ghibli style.
This trend went viral online when users began posting ‘ghiblified’ images of themselves and other iconic scenes from movies, memes, and posters of prominent personalities using ChatGPT's latest update.
OpenAI’s image generator, which is a part of the ChatGPT-4.0 release, allows users to change ordinary photos into magical, hand-drawn images.
While many people are appreciating and following this new feature and having fun turning their photos into Japanese anime-style portraits, not everyone is a fan.
Some argue that these AI-generated images are disrespectful to Miyazaki’s creative genius, calling them a poor imitation of his distinctive style. Digital privacy activists on social media platform X are raising concerns.
Critics warn OpenAI may exploit trend to harvest personal photos for AI training, risking unwitting facial data provision despite user enjoyment.
However, activists insist that OpenAI’s data collection strategy is about more than just an AI copyright issue.
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They say it allows the company to obtain voluntarily submitted images, bypassing legal restrictions that apply to web-scraped data.
In a lengthy post, Luiza Jarowski, co-founder of the AI Tech & Privacy Academy, said that when people voluntarily upload these photos, they give their consent for OpenAI to process them (Article 6.1.a of the GDPR).
Luiza Jarowski wrote, “Furthermore, OpenAI’s privacy policy clearly states that the company collects personal data input by users to train its AI models when users do not opt out.