OpenAI has a Studio Ghibli problem

Mar 28, 2025 07:58 PM - 11 months ago 409526

David Pierce is editor-at-large and Vergecast co-host pinch complete a decade of acquisition covering user tech. Previously, astatine Protocol, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired.

When you tin create creation conscionable by asking for it, what mightiness you create? If you’re thing for illustration the net these past fewer days, you’d create immoderate beautiful things — stylized family portraits, a 1000 different looks for the Distracted Boyfriend meme — and immoderate truly, deeply, unfathomably horrifying ones. But astir of all, it turns out, you’d turn everything, everything into a Studio Ghibli creation.

On this section of The Vergecast, we talk a batch astir the Ghibli-ification of everything this week. The Verge’s Kylie Robison joins the show to explicate OpenAI’s caller image generator wrong ChatGPT, which is vastly much powerful and meticulous than thing the institution has released before. It instantly made clear some how absorbing and fun these AI devices tin be, and really hugely problematic they are some legally and morally. The lawsuits look to practically constitute themselves, but it’s still not astatine each clear wherever immoderate of this is headed.

Before we get to that, though, Nilay and David person immoderate gadget news to talk about. We wonderment aloud astir the ongoing virality of the Canon G7X Mark III, and why any five-year-old camera would beryllium truthful immense connected TikTok. We besides talk astir the return of OG Facebook, the newest update for the AirPods Max, why Apple mightiness want to put a camera successful your Apple Watch, what’s coming up astatine WWDC, and whether the extremity of the Echo brand is really upon us. After that, it’s AI time.

Finally, successful the lightning round, we bring you America’s favourite podcast wrong a podcast, Brendan Carr is simply a Dummy. We besides talk astir the ongoing Signal attack-planning saga, Elon Musk pressuring Reddit CEO Steve Huffman to mean his level differently, the latest connected the TikTok ban, and the twists and turns successful the early of the car business. Tariffs, y’all. Tariffs.

If you want to cognize much astir everything we talk successful this episode, present are immoderate links to get you started, first successful gadget news:

And successful OpenAI, Studio Ghibli, and different AI news:

And successful the lightning round:

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