Fans of Studio Ghibli, the famed Japanese animation studio behind “Spirited Away” and other beloved movies, were delighted this week when a new version of ChatGPT let them transform popular internet memes or personal photos into the distinct style of Ghibli founder Hayao Miyazaki.
Not style. But they had to train that AI on ghibli stuff. So… Did they have the right to do that?
Training doesn’t involve copying anything, so I don’t see why they wouldn’t. You need to copy something to violate copyright.
I hate lawyer speak with a passion
Everyone knows what we’re talking about here, what we mean, and so do you
And yet if one wishes to ask:
That is inherently the realm of lawyer speak because you’re asking what the law says about something.
The alternative is vigilantism and “mob justice.” That’s not a good thing.
Yeah I think you know very well what I meant. I’m talking about the lawyer sprak where people know that they are obviously wrong, yet act as if they did nothing wrong by using extremely border technicalities as arguments