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It's War: AI's Horrifying Boiling Point is Here

OpenAI's new brazen image generator rips off Studio Ghibli, Pixar & Lego. Hollywood, fight now before it's too late

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Erik Barmack
Mar 31, 2025
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TRANSFORMERS My daughter Penny’s Ghiblification, center, and Legoification, courtesy of OpenAI’s shocking new GPT-4o image generator. (photo: Erik Barmack; renderings: OpenAI screenshots)

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Erik Barmack writes every other Tue. for paid subscribers; this is a special edition. He recently wrote about AI fan fiction as Hollywood’s next cash cow; the AI animat…

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