The Ghibli craze is viral and almost at an unprecedented level. Little surprising then that ChatGPT maker OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has been on the seventh heaven ever since the past few days.
A Twitter user named Sohail Ahmed wrote on Twitter, “After a long time I see positivity on x because of people sharing cute images of their family and loved ones. Thanks Sam”. While writing the same, he quoted Sam Altman’s tweet where he wrote, “can yall please chill on generating images this is insane our team needs sleep.”
Responding to Sohail Ahmed, OpenAI CEO wrote, “this is generally a quite negative platform, so i am happy we were able to bring some joy temporarily.”
This is not the first time that Sam Altman and Elon Musk have made fun of each other. Elon Musk has made fun of ChatGPT’s Ghibli image generator in some posts on Twitter. One went on to hint how the company is wasting resources it took for noble causes for inane things.
The two have a history of taking jabs at each other publicly. Earlier this year, Elon Musk along with a coalition of deep-pocketed investors made a bid to acquire ChatGPT maker OpenAI. The offer, he said, is aimed to block OpenAI’s conversion to a for-profit business. Altman spurned the buyout offer, saying that OpenAI is “not for sale,” and called the overture by Musk, who owns rival startup xAI, an attempt to “slow us down.”
In response to Altman’s filing, Tesla’s CEO told the court he would drop his bid for OpenAI if the startup halts its restructuring. Altman rejected the proposal before OpenAI’s board had even seen it, Musk said. That is a breach of fiduciary duty, he argued.
ChatGPT Ghibli craze going viral
The Ghibli craze has gone viral after ChatGPT’s update to GPT-4o, released last week. The GPT-4o features many advancements, including more accurate text rendering and the ability to follow more detailed, complex prompts. Of these, one style quickly flooded Twitter and Instagram, as users of ChatGPT (and OpenAI’s text-to-video service, Sora) began emulating the work of the Japanese animation company Studio Ghibli behind movies like “Spirited Away” and “Howl’s Moving Castle.”
