Users quickly began making the most of the policy change — sharing “Ghiblified” images of 9/11, Adolf Hitler, and the murder of George Floyd. The official White House account on X even shared a Studio Ghibli-style image of an ICE officer detaining an alleged illegal immigrant.

There are many debates on the ethics of generating AI images, especially against the vocal anti-AI opinions of Studio Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazaki. Despite this, the fusion of internet culture with Studio Ghibli’s art style continues to engage and entertain people on social media worldwide.

Editing your images like Studio Ghibli is a trend that has swept social media, with posts amassing millions of views—but it's raising privacy concerns.

Ghibli-style AI art generators on ChatGPT and Grok 3 are a new online craze, but privacy concerns arise as users may unknowingly share personal data.

Folks across social media are using ChatGPT’s latest model, GPT-4o, to transform ordinary photos into dreamy, Studio Ghibli-inspired anime illustrations. OpenAI’s newly expanded image generation tool—called ‘Images in ChatGPT’—is now integrated directly into the LLM, making it easy for users to create AI-generated scenes with a simple prompt.

But there’s also something deeper at play, because the Ghibli filter itself has a sour aftertaste — at its core, it’s a minor echo of the Trump era’s utter disregard for other human beings.

OpenAI has added millions of users in the past week alone with its new image generation feature. Users unleashed a wave of creativity online, sharing Japanese Ghibli-style artwork created by ChatGPT from detailed prompts.