Editing your images like Studio Ghibli is a trend that has swept social media, with posts amassing millions of views—but it's raising privacy concerns.

Fans are using ChatGPT to generate artwork and memes in the iconic hand-drawn style of Studio Ghibli. But is it legal and sustainable?

In late March 2025, social media became inundated with a viral new trend thanks to ChatGPT’s image generator going public for all users, which took the internet by storm almost immediately. Folks flocked to the AI with requests to recreate photos of themselves as Studio Ghibli characters in a fad that was impossible to

In just a week of the image-generation feature on ChatGPT, Indian users stormed the internet with memes and "ghiblified" images, so much so that even OpenAI, ChatGPT's parent,

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.

ChatGPT’s new image generation feature, launched last week, has become immensely popular, with over 130 million users creating 700 million images. India is the fastest growing market for ChatGPT, as noted by OpenAI’s COO and CEO,

In my opinion, OpenAI has sidelined Microsoft again, restricting the Ghibli meme frenzy exclusively to its users.

While the internet is buzzing with ChatGPT’s Ghibli-style portrait trend, some social media users have pointed out that the powerful AI chatbot can now generate images of fake Aadhaar and PAN cards. T