PM Modi joins Studio Ghibli trend; MyGovIndia posts pics with Trump, Macron

The Union government unveiled a collection of Studio Ghibli-inspired portraits of Narendra Modi, as the Prime Minister participated in the popular trend of creating animated renditions of photos with the help of Artificial Intelligence.

“Main character? No. He’s the whole storyline Experience through New India in Studio Ghibli strokes,” the government said in a post on X, posting pictures of PM Modi with US President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron.

It also generated animated versions of Modi's photos, including ones taken beside a Vande Bharat train, during a 2023 sortie on a Tejas Light Combat Fighter aircraft and his involvement in a cleanliness campaign under the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan.

Ever since OpenAI rolled out its image generator, users have seemingly put it to use in countless ways. So much so that CEO Sam Altman, in a post on Wednesday, admitted that the tool’s popularity has exceeded his expectations, leading to a delay in its rollout to the free tier.

OpenAI on Tuesday introduced image generation to ChatGPT, enabling users to create visuals directly within the app using its advanced reasoning model, GPT-4o.

Since its launch, social media has been flooded with AI-generated images, including a wave of Studio Ghibli-inspired visuals. Users have dubbed it a "Ghibli fest," referencing the renowned animation studio behind Academy Award-winning films like Spirited Away and The Boy and the Heron.

“At OpenAI, we have long believed that image generation should be a core capability of our language models,” the company stated in a blog post.

What makes GPT-4o’s image generation stand out—beyond being free to users (though, as Altman noted, with some delays)—is its enhanced accuracy and control. The model excels at rendering text correctly, precisely following prompts, and leveraging its built-in knowledge and chat context.

Users can transform uploaded images or use them as visual inspiration, making it easier to create exactly what they envision. Prompts can include images, text, or nearly anything else one would use to generate a text response.