From last night to this morning, a large number of meme images with styles very similar to those of Hayao Miyazakis films and TV shows suddenly emerged on social media platforms such as X. For example, the following super universal meme picture, which is still very popular on the Internet, has a new charm and vitality under the rendering of Hayao Miyazakis Ghibli style.
Of course, some classic old animations and famous scenes also appeared in this remake feast, turning into hell jokes such as Vance wants to thank and the plane crashed into the building...
At the same time, the meme coin named $Ghibli also started the fast pass mode on the chain. It has been rising since its issuance at 6 pm yesterday. With the hype from all parties this morning, its market value has soared. As of the time of writing, it has exceeded 24 million US dollars, with a 24-hour increase of more than 10,824%.
What happened? What is Ghibli?
Of course, all this is thanks to the freshly baked GPT-4 o new features.
On Tuesday, OpenAI launched GPT-4os built-in image generator, which is officially called the most advanced image generator to date with local multi-model capabilities for precise, accurate, and realistic output. And people have found that this image generator is particularly good at replicating the anime style of Hayao Miyazakis Studio Ghibli.
In an X tweet on Wednesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took the lead in starting the Ghibli virality and also changed his own profile picture to a Ghibli-style image.
Subsequently, many Twitter celebrities began to follow suit, uploading their own pictures rendered in the Ghibli style. Even Musk, the founder of Grok AI, a fierce rival of OpenAI, wrote in his Picture Tweet: This is the theme of today.
While ChatGpt previously allowed users to create images from text prompts, it did so by routing them to another separate OpenAI model, DALL-E 3.
The GPT-4o model is named O because it is an Omni model. This means that in addition to text code, OpenAI has also trained it on image code and even audio and video, enabling it to understand all these forms of media and their similarities, and generate given media based on user prompts without connecting any external models.
Recently, AI giants are competing fiercely on image creation models, and Google has recently updated the experimental image creation model of Gemini 2.0 Flash. Obviously, it is becoming a very simple thing to let AI become your own personal painter and make a picture that fully understands your meaning.
Studio Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazaki himself has previously expressed strong opposition to AI-generated animation. At a conference in 2016, Miyazaki said of the AI animation display: I am completely disgusted. If you really want to make creepy things, you can go ahead. I would never want to incorporate this technology into my work, adding that it is an insult to life itself.
How to create your own Ghibli?
Start by navigating to chat.com or chatgpt.com and making sure you’re using a GPT Plus, Pro, or Team account and that the AI model selector says “GPT-4 o.”
Upload an image using the + button in the lower left corner of the live input text box, and then you can say to the new GPT-4o with image creation model Redraw this picture in the style of Ghibli animation. You can also upload multiple pictures and combine them into one picture in the Ghibli style. In short, try it a lot, 4o will bring you a lot of surprises.
Of course, the related meme token $Ghibli simply combines the artistic aesthetics of Studio Ghibli and the trend of AI-generated content in the narrative, and attention is the reason why it quickly became popular on Twitter. However, the information about the team behind the token is currently unclear, and investors should be cautious about the corresponding risks.
