In case you haven’t been around for the past couple of days, OpenAI (creators of ChatGPT, the company that has the infamous record of charging the most for one of its AI models) released a revolutionary image generation model that’s leagues above what was possible before. People have gone nuts asking ChatGPT to generate images of themselves and their families (and memes) in Studio Ghibli’s lovely style. Here is the result with a couple of old photos of mine, from around the time the events of The Scrap Colossus take place.

Credit where credit is due: Studio Ghibli is the legendary Japanese crew responsible for unforgettable films like Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, Grave of the Fireflies, My Neighbor Totoro, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, and more.

I wondered what would happened if I drew a shitty manga portrait with my mouse on Paint and told ChatGPT to make it into something professional looking in Ghibli’s style. The shocking results are below.

That mouth was supposed to be open, but other than that… Jeez.