Forbes April 3, 2025
Ben Zhao, Inventor of Nightshade and Glaze, Says Data Poisoning Can Be A Remedy
On March 25, 2025, Open AI launched a controversial image-generation feature, GPT-4o, which allows users to transform various visuals—ranging from personal selfies to iconic movie scenes—into images resembling the distinctive style of Studio Ghibli, the renowned Japanese animation studio founded in 1985 by Hayao Miyazaki, Isao Takahata, and Toshio Suzuki. Fans of have criticized this as disrespectful to Miyazaki’s legacy.
Studio Ghibli co-founder Miyazaki has been a vocal critic of AI-generated art, describing it as “an insult to life itself.” He has emphasized that AI lacks the ability to understand human emotions or pain, which are central to authentic artistic...