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The Ghibli Trend!

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While scrolling through social media lately you can’t miss the latest craze of Ghibli style portraits ! Be it Facebook , Instagram or even LinkedIn you will find people posting Ghibli style images . This trend has taken the internet by storm. From yours friends to colleagues even celebrities and influencers all have been under the Ghibli fever!  But what is this trend and why is everyone going crazy about it. Lets break it down.

What is Ghibli

Ghibli is a feature introduced by open AI in which through Chat GPT you can covert your photo into an animated portrait. The look and feel of the portrait is similar to Studio Ghibli animation style.

So what is the meaning of Ghibli and what is Studio Ghibli . Studio Ghibli is a very famous and award winning Japanese animation studio based out in Tokyo. It was founded in the year 1985 by animator and director Miyazaki Hayao and Takahata Isao. Over the years the company has become renowned in creating high quality animated feature films using hand drawn images. Their studio have made iconic animation films and their animation have a distinctive soft pastels colour palette. Ghibli is an Arabic word which means hot dessert wind.

Why is Ghibli trending

The image generator feature on open AI Chat GPT has created a Ghibli fever online. The images generated using the feature are similar to Studio Ghibli images.  For creating a Ghibli image for free open the latest version of Chat GPT. Now Give a text prompt  asking AI to generate a Ghibli style portrait of say like Narendra Modi. Chat GPT will then in a few seconds generate the Ghibli image for you.  Incase you want your own Ghibli image then open Chat GPT . Click on the + sign at the bottom left corner to upload your image. Type Ghiblify this image or create Ghibli style portrait of this image and again within seconds your very own Studio Ghibli style portrait is ready. Now you can download it and use it. It is very simple to use and easily accessible and so this has become very popular among everyone and everyone wants to try the Ghibli avatar!

Effects of Ghibli Trend

While Ghibli trend has become viral. It is turning everything from movie images to personal photos into Ghibli style images. But this trend has raised a lot of privacy concern over sharing your personal images on the internet.

Platforms like Proton and others which work on data security and threat have mentioned that once you share your personal photos with AI then you will loose control over your photos and these can be used to further train AI. They can generate content which can be defaming or used for harassment. AI tools have a lot of risk exposing location and other sensitive data and it creates threat especially for children . One needs to be careful and thoughtful before sharing personal information or personal family photos on AI platforms. There can be serious breach to security and one will not be able to do anything about it.

The effect has become so viral that Open AI CEO has humorously pleaded people to slow down a bit in using the feature saying his team needed some sleep and can’t work 24/7.
The famous Studio Ghibli has mesmerised the audience for decades with its films. The soft colour palettes used, hand drawn animation and dreamy world have influenced people and artists and animators all cross the globe. Now with AI fans are able to create their very own Ghibli world and it is becoming quite exciting.
While it is just a trend and in a few days people will move to something else but yes it has created a disruption for all the animators and artists which put in so much of hard work, originality and long hours to create the Ghibli effect portraits. Now Ghibli style portraits can now be generated within seconds through AI. This is where it brings the question that if technology is being fair to people or not. Think about it !

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