OpenAI's ChatGPT-4o boosted user growth after its Ghibli-style image creation feature took off.Microsoft stands to benefit from OpenAI's growth, wrote Jefferies.OpenAI's latest $40 billion funding round raised its valuation to $300 billion.

The frenzy to create Ghibli-style AI art using ChatGPT's image-generation tool led to a record surge in users for OpenAI's chatbot last week, straining its servers and temporarily limiting the feature's usage.

Artificial intelligence risks taking Japanese anime artists’ jobs but nothing can replicate Hayao Miyazaki, the creative lifeblood of the studio behind classics such as Spirited Away, his son told AFP.

OpenAI's ChatGPT saw record-breaking user growth following its latest rollout, causing GPU capacity challenges for the company.

Seattle software engineer Grant Slatton and his wife and dog at the beach as seen in an original photograph and the Studio Ghibli-style image, left, that

Take OpenAI’s latest Ghibli-style image update, for example. In just a few days, it went viral, flooding social media with dreamy, hand-drawn portraits. You’ve probably seen friends, family, or even yourself experimenting with it.

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.

Studio Ghibli’s ‘Princess Mononoke,’ directed by Hayao Miyazaki, has been re-released in Imax, just as Studio Ghibli became the latest AI-generated trend.

Grant Slatton is a Seattle-based software engineer who is the powerhouse behind the viral sensation of ChatGPT’s Ghibli-style image generation.

OpenAI's new GPT-4o image-generating feature, popular for creating Ghibli-style art, has faced technical challenges due to high demand. CEO Sam Altman

Sure, it's just some cool images. But it shows the tide is with the customized and the automated — and away from originality.