Everything is Ghibli

OpenAI unleashed its native image generation in ChatGPT on Tuesday. By Wednesday morning, every social feed was drowning in Studio Ghibli-style portraits. (Linkedin, check back next week.) What happened—and why—is another signal of where AI, art, and our attention are headed. How it started: Just some bros and a selfie On March 25, OpenAI livestreamed GPT-4o’s image generation features—blending text and visuals, rendering flawless typography, and handling complex prompts with ease. At one point, the team turned a group selfie into an anime-style portrait. Sure, the technical updates were significant: improved text rendering (a longtime challenge), better attribute binding (complex prompts, handled), and context carried across conversation. But what really matters is what we did with it. How it’s going: Full-on Ghiblification It started with one tweet: “Tremendous alpha right now in sending your wife photos of yall converted to studio ghibli anime,” wrote Grant Slatton. Soon everyo ... Read full article.