Our Family: Ghibli Style

Wow, the Substack article, “The Colors Of Her Coat” by Scott Alexander taught me several new things:

1. About the medieval origins of lapis lazuli, ultramarine and the color blue.
2. How AI may be creating a “semantic apocalypse.”
3. What the ““Ghiblification” trend” is “where people use OpenAI’s new art model to make photos look like Studio Ghibli anime.”

For deeper reading see “Welcome to the semantic apocalypse: Studio Ghibli style and the draining of meaning” by Erik Hoel.

Via Ethan Mollick’s March 30th Substack article, “No elephants: Breakthroughs in image generation – When Language Models Learn to See and Create” shared by Jason Neiffer on LinkedIn.

My ChatGPT prompt for the attached image: “Please create a “Studio Ghibli anime” version of the attached image.”

Image links:

1. Original image
2. AI Studio Ghibli style image (generated by ChatGPT)
3. Combined image collage, “Our Family Studio Ghibli Style”

Is this “the end of culture?” No, I don’t think so. But it’s certainly a challenging time for copyright lawyers and creative professionals.

For more on this, check out Jason Neiffer and my upcoming “EdTech Situation Room” podcast and webshow on Wednesday, April 9th at 9pm ET. I’m sure we’ll talk about this!

This article is also shared on my SubStack newsletter, “Media Literacy with Wes:”