Given his commitment to the human touch in animation, and his description of AI as an "insult of life itself", many argue that the AI trend is an insult to everything Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli stand for.

OpenAI released a new version of their image generation technology, and people are using it to recreate memes in the style of Studio Ghibli, the Japanese animation studio behind acclaimed films like Spirited Away, The Boy and The Heron, and The Wind Rises.

The frenzy to create Ghibli-style art using ChatGPT has sparked a heated debate about the ethical concerns of AI-generated art, copyright issues and the future livelihoods of artists.