Barthe, a professor of online marketing, remarked to the foreign news agency that personalisation was the driving force behind the memes. “That tickles the egos of consumers,” she said.

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A broad discussion has unfolded in Japan over whether AI‑generated images mimicking Studio Ghibli’s style—an effect dubbed “Ghiblification”—should be treated as copyright infringement.

The controversy around the recent OpenAI craze of making Studio Ghibli style art has made it all the way up to the Japanese ...