Has the AI ​​Tipping Point and the End of Art Arrived?

Over the past week, the creative world has witnessed an unprecedented craze: OpenAI's image-generating technology in GPT-4o has sparked the "Ghiblification" trend, where social media users turn everything from personal photos to memes to historical images into Ghibli-style paintings.

The craze didn’t stop at Ghibli. In just a few days, users created images in the styles of Disney, Pixar, The Simpsons, The Muppets, and even retro styles like Rankin/Bass. The images went viral so quickly that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman had to plead with users to “calm down” while creating the images, because “our GPUs are melting.”

But the AI ​​boom isn't just about excitement. It's also directly threatening the creative industries, especially Hollywood and animators.

Social media users turn memes into Ghibli-style paintings.

"Art" or appropriation?

ChatGPT "added one million users in the last hour"

On Tuesday, CEO Sam Altman announced that ChatGPT added a million users in just one hour. This shows that AI technology is spreading at an unprecedented rate. For OpenAI, this could be a moment of glory. But for artist Hayao Miyazaki, Hollywood, and artists around the world, could it be the moment of art’s demise?

None other than animation legend Hayao Miyazaki has warned about this. Studio Ghibli director Miyazaki believes that AI technology could be an “insult to life itself,” because true art requires time, meticulousness, and human dedication.

Studio Ghibli has spent decades creating masterpieces. A four-second scene in The Wind Rises can take more than a year to complete. A burrowing creature scene in Princess Mononoke took a year and seven months to hand-draw 5,300 frames. But now, with AI, images can be created in seconds.

OpenAI's copying of the style of Ghibli and other animation studios raises a big question: is this creativity or just appropriation?

Is Hollywood Facing a "Sputnik Moment"?

When the Soviet Union launched Sputnik in 1957, the United States was shocked and immediately accelerated its investment in science and technology to avoid being left behind. Now, with the rapid development of AI, Hollywood may be facing its own “Sputnik Moment.”

So far, Hollywood has been quiet. But signs of a crisis are emerging. For one, can AI replace thousands of animators, when images that Studio Ghibli spent years drawing by hand can now be created by AI in minutes? And if AI can animate instantly, will studios still employ hundreds of animators?

Not to mention the issue of artistic copyright. The question is, does AI have the right to copy artists’ styles? And who will protect creators from having their work copied by AI without permission?

Ngoc Anh (according to Ankler, Axios)

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