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ChatGPT’s Ghibli filter is political now — but it always was

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The White House jumped on a ChatGPT meme whose aftertaste was already sour.

On Thursday afternoon , the White House posted a photo of a crying detainee that it bragged was an arrested fentanyl trafficker and undocumented immigrant.

It added an almost certainly AI -generated cartoon of an officer handcuffing the sobbing woman.

The move amounted to a bizarre product advertisement from a company President Trump has close ties to.

At its core, it's a minor echo of the Trump era’s utter disregard for other human beings.

Hayao Miyazaki , whose name is synonymous with the animation studio, is one of the most famously anti-AI artists in the world.

Using Ghibli 's work specifically for publicity is a power move, it loudly tells the artists whose creations make ChatGPT function, and we’ll take what we want.