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The world hasn’t actually turned into an anime, but it sure does feel that way.  An accelerating trend of turning images into styles made popular by Japanese animation studio Studio Ghibli has taken over social media, leading to overloaded OpenAI GPUs and growing debate about artificial intelligence’s role in art and creation—plus a new Solana meme coin that’s reached a nearly $30 million market cap.  What exactly is going on? Here’s everything you need to know about the hottest AI image trend. What is Studio Ghibli? Studio Ghibli is an award-winning Japanese animation studio co-founded by well-known animator and filmmaker, Hayao Miyazaki.  Founded in 1985, the studio boasts more than 20 films and is perhaps best known for its Oscar-winning anime features, “The Boy and the Heron” and “Spirited Away.” The latter film is listed inside the top 50 films by user rating on IMDb, and is critically acclaimed. Fantastical landscapes and a keen attention to detail permeate all the Ghibli films, which maintain a similar art style and aesthetic—one that now is the influence behind a bevy of image-altering requests made to OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot.  All of that may be much to the chagrin of Miyazaki, who in a 2016 documentary said that AI technology was an “insult to life.”  Nevertheless, the popularity of his studio’s work and imagery has flooded social media timelines as users flock to “Ghiblify” their own photos, turning ordinary images into those that look like they came from a Miyazaki film. How do you ‘Ghiblify’ an image? Want to make one of your pictures look like it was produced by Studio Ghibli? It’s easy. With the latest image generator from OpenAI’s GPT-4o model, users can quickly and easily swap an everyday photo for a “Ghiblified” version with a few simple prompts. Getting an image…

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