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ChatGPT’s Studio Ghibli-style images show its creative power – but raise new copyright problems

Social media has recently been flooded with images that looked like they belonged in a Studio Ghibli film. Selfies, family photos and even memes have been re-imagined with the soft pastel palette characteristic of the Japanese animation company founded by Hayao Miyazaki.

The Conversation

Meta allegedly used pirated books to train AI. Australian authors have objected, but US courts may decide if this is ‘fair use’

Companies developing AI models, such as OpenAI and Meta, train their systems on enormous datasets. These consist of text from newspapers, books (often sourced from unauthorised repositories), academic publications and various internet sources. The material includes works that are copyrighted.

The Conversation

OpenAI Says It Raised $40 Bn At Valuation Of $300 Bn

OpenAI on Monday said it raised $40 billion in a new funding round that valued the ChatGPT maker at $300 billion, the biggest capital-raising session ever for a startup.

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What is ChatGPT? Everything you need to know

We put together a list of the most frequently asked questions about the OpenAI chatbot ChatGPT. Here’s what we found out.

Tom’s Guide

ChatGPT was down again — live updates on latest outage

ChatGPT dealt with issues for users all around the world but it appears to be solved now.

Tom’s Guide

ChatGPT was down again – here's everything we know about the latest outage

ChatGPT has been down several times for many this week – here's everything we know about OpenAI's latest outage.

TechRadar

How to create Studio Ghibli images with ChatGPT, with some of the best examples

These are the ChatGPT prompts to use if you want to make anime-style images like the ones on your social media feeds.

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Bill Gates would restart Microsoft as an AI-centric lab after 50 years — "Raising billions of dollars from a few sketch ideas"

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates says he'd start the company again as an AI-centric firm to rival OpenAI, Google, and more.

Windows Central

Studio Ghibli Requests Are ‘Melting’ ChatGPT Servers In An Ultimate Display Of Karma

ChatGPT parent company OpenAI has become overwhelmed by the viral Studio Ghibli trend and has imposed temporary limits.

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What is AI Distillation?

AI model distillation is a powerful way to improve AI performance on smaller computers.

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Analyst claims Softbank bought Ampere Computing for $6.5 billion to help OpenAI's chip ambitions

Did SoftBank spend $6.5 billion on Ampere to power OpenAI’s massive Stargate project?

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ICYMI: the week's 7 biggest tech stories from Nintendo's last Switch direct to the Google Pixel 9a finally getting a release date

The week's 7 biggest tech stories from Marvel, Nintendo, Google and more for March 29, 2025.

TechRadar

Elon Musk’s AI company just bought X

Move is seen by some as way to shore up flagging value of X social network

The Independent UK

Elon Musk Says XAI Startup Buying X Platform

Elon Musk on Friday said his artificial intelligence startup xAI is buying his social networking platform X in a deal valuing the company once known as Twitter at $33 billion.

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Why CoreWeave's lackluster IPO doesn't tell us much about business enthusiasm for AI

The company's debt-fueled business model make it a poor proxy for gauging AI enthusiasm more broadly.

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ChatGPT’s Studio Ghibli-style image generator proves AI isn’t sustainable

OpenAI rolled out GPT-4o image generation for ChatGPT on Monday, and it immediately went viral. But that's caused some power issues with OpenAI's data center. Can we keep ignoring that AI has a clear sustainability issue?

TechRadar

The 'AI economy is currently a closed loop' - and that's probably why OpenAI, not Microsoft, invested a whopping $12bn in CoreWeave

Microsoft pulled out of a $12bn deal with CoreWeave, and OpenAI took its place.

Evening Standard

OpenAI limits AI images as Studio Ghibli art takes a dark turn

As criticism mounts over potentially harmful and unethical use of the new AI tool, OpenAI says it is investigating violations of its usage policy

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ChatGPT’s newest image generation tool isn’t just raising ethical concerns – it's also melting OpenAI's GPUs

The new GPT-4o image generation will copy studio styles and real people, but the company is restricting generations

Euronews

ChatGPT's viral Studio Ghibli-style images: 'An insult to life itself'

“I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself." Wise words from legendary Japanese filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki, whose comments on AI in 2016 are going viral following this week's trend of creating Studio Ghibli-style portraits with ChatGPT's latest update.

Windows Central

Is AI a fad? 76% of researchers say scaling has "plateaued" — but firms like OpenAI continue splurging billions into a dead end

According to a new study, 76% of AI researchers suggest that current AI strategies are "unlikely" or "very unlikely" to succeed.

Fortune

Sam Altman says ChatGPT's Studio Ghibli-style images are ‘melting’ OpenAI’s GPUs

The flood of Ghibli-style images has forced OpenAI to impose temporary limits—and raised questions about potential copyright violations.

TechRadar

Pi is a friendlier, cosier alternative to ChatGPT – whether that's a good thing depends on you

Pi offers a gentler, more emotionally aware chatbot experience, designed to feel like a conversation, not just a tool. But is that what you want?

Windows Central

Sam Altman says ChatGPT's images "are wayyy more popular than we expected" — OpenAI had to place free users on a waitlist for a while, "our GPUs are melting"

OpenAI recently announced that it's delaying ChatGPT's image-generation tool for free users for a while.

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There are 372 AI unicorns right now, according to PitchBook. Here’s what that means

Right now, in the tech industry paddock, there are 372 AI unicorns, according to PitchBook.

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