OpenAI’s Ghibli Moment Spins Out of Control
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Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter with reporting and analysis about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Ellen Huet looks at the way OpenAI reacted to the Studio Ghibli memes that flowed from users of its new AI image generator.
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