Can Japanese government make AI-generated Ghibli images illegal?

Can Japanese government make AI-generated Ghibli images illegal?

Fan art inspired by Studio Ghibli anime is nothing new, as the works of director Hayao Miyazaki and his cohorts have been inspiring artistic types for pretty much as long as the studio has existed. If you’ve spent much time online in the past few weeks, though, you might have be experienced…

Members of the Japanese Government Try to Make Sense of Ghibli AI Craze

The recent OpenAI craze of making Studio Ghibli style art has gotten a lot of people talking about copyright laws. Studio Ghibli itself still has not made a statement on it (though Hayao Miyazaki famously came out as anti-AI a few years ago), but the controversy did make it all the way up to the Japanese government. It happened at a House of Representatives Cabinet Committee earlier this week. Politicians Masato Imai and Hirohiko Nakahara discus…