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Ghibli Everything
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Best Indie Games Newsletter
By Clement • 30 March 2025
Hello Indie Game Fan!
Something adjacent to games has been on my mind this week so do excuse the slight tangent, but if you've been around social media this week, I'm pretty sure you would have come across OpenAI's new image generation capabilities, in particular, turning any photo into one with a "Studio Ghibli-like" art style, which has really thrown me for a loop.
On one hand, the less chronically online people are having fun with it, maybe thinking that it is some sort of image filter equivalent like on Instagram, or the thought never even crossed their mind about HOW it is being generated.
Then of course, we have artists (and by extension, game developers) who abhor the notion of AI generated anything, noting, rightfully so, about the myriad of copyright issues and the sources of training data.
I'm pretty sure Studio Ghibli did not see a single cent of any AI generated images in the "Studio Ghibli style", so I cannot imagine what it would be like to see your life's work so easily copied like this.
In fact, some of likened it to the "death of art", since there's no incentive to create any unique style any more, if it can that that easily replicated (financial incentives will not be there), so this is about as far as we are going to get culturally.
Then again, the genie is out of the bottle and there is no turning back, so the sentiment I have seen is Adapt or Die.
Please share your thoughts on this with me (reply direct to this email) since I want to read more perspectives to get a better feel for this situation.
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