Altman said during his virtual appearance on a YouTube podcast hosted by Indian entrepreneur Varun Mayya, the broad ability to create content is a major positive development despite its complexity.
His comments come amid a new controversy about AI-generated artwork, sparked by the viral “Ghibli AI” trends on social media. This trend features Ghibli-style productions of iconic cinema moments, memes, and even artistic interpretations of artistic news.
Hayao Miyazaki (84), the legendary film director behind Studio Ghibli, has long expressed his skepticism about the role of AI in animation. Miyazaki’s old video has recently resurfaced, and he strongly condemned the animation generated by AI, calling it “a humiliation to life itself”, as previously reported by et.
What happens to the user data?
The popularity of Ghibli-style image generation features causes a surge in user-generated content, where users upload personal images and convert them through the tool.
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Cybersecurity experts say that such tools may seem harmless, but their terms of service are often ambiguous, raising concerns about the way images are stored and used, particularly with metadata such as user data, particularly location coordinates, timestamps, and device details.
Openai’s privacy policy states that users can train models using the rusted data unless they explicitly opt out. However, many users are unaware of this clause as they are enthusiastic about participating in viral trends like Gibli breeding.
Record surge in users
Openai reported that the platform had gained 1 million users within an hour of launching Ghibli-style image generation capabilities.
The company said ChatGPT has over 130 million users and is being driven primarily by new image generation tools. According to Openai COO Brad LightCap, users have created over 700 million images since March 27th.
ET recently reported that Indian users have spent $8 million on ChatGPT subscriptions via in-app payments since 2023. In contrast, US users have spent about $330 million over the same period.
