... To explore what content OpenAI may have used, The Washington Post used Sora to create hundreds of videos that show it can closely mimic movies, TV shows and other content. The accuracy of the tool’s re-creations suggests Sora had been trained on a version of the originals, experts said. The Post has a content partnership with OpenAI. ...
As Ghibli-ified images flooded social media, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman posted on X that ChatGPT was signing up a million users in just an hour. The company said at the time that it continued to prevent generation of images mimicking individual living artists but permitted copying “broader studio styles.”
If millions of ChatGPT users had fun playing around with Ghibli’s carefully crafted aesthetic, “should [the studio] really be making zero percent?” said actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who has done voice-over work for Studio Ghibli. He recently argued on his Substack that workers, not corporate rightsholders, should be paid when their art is used to train AI. Studio Ghibli declined to comment.
Altman has said on multiple occasions that artists should be compensated if an AI system creates something in their style. “People have got to get paid,” he told podcast host Lex Fridman in 2024. Wood, the OpenAI spokesperson, declined to comment on whether the company has made progress on such a program.
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