India, March 30 -- The viral trend of Ghibli-style portraits has taken social media by storm, with netizens asking AI to modify their pictures into a distinct anime style. While many are obsessed with OpenAI's GPT-4o's new feature, there are some who have slammed the trend as "disrespectful."

With the '4o Image Generation' feature going viral, an old video of Studio Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazaki has resurfaced. In the video, Miyazaki criticised AI-generated animation as "an insult to life itself" and said he "would never wish to incorporate this technology into my work at all."

On social media, many claimed creating the art using artificial intelligence is insulting to Miyazaki as he disliked AI.

In a discussion on Reddit, a user sa...