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From learning to carve woodblocks or make pottery, to observing artisans at work, tourists can help sustain and revive these ...

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Following the popularity of the AI-generated images in Studio Ghibli-style that took over the internet a few weeks ago, Japanese lawmakers are considering making them illegal. The images ...

Studio Ghibli itself still has not made a statement on it (though Hayao Miyazaki famously came out as anti-AI a few years ago), but the controversy did make it all the way up to the Japanese ...

“There has been discussion of whether the so-called ‘Ghiblification,’ making AI-generated images ... no direct legal action has been taken by the Japanese government against ChatGPT over ...