Elon Musk makes fun of ChatGPT’s Ghibli-style photo generator with this 'hilarious' reaction on popular meme

Elon Musk joined the viral trend of making Ghibli-style photos after OpenAI launched an update to its photo gernerator in ChatGPT. Tesla CEO's post on Ghibli-style viral trend made fun of the Microsoft-backed AI company’s newest image generating capabilities. Wondering how, with a meme twist. Musk reshared a popular ‘Anakin and Padme from Star Wars’ meme to poke fun at the tech company’s priorities. Anakin says "WE NEED MORE COMPUTE," and Padme asks "TO CURE CANCER, RIGHT?" The shady look in the meme implies it’s not for noble causes like that but for creating Ghibli-style image generating capabilities instead.
Anyone who's experimented with generating Ghibli-style images will immediately recognise the meme’s accurate depiction of the user interface during the process. It is essentially a dig at how tech resources are used vs what people hope for.


The internet's latest viral sensation, the ability to transform images into the whimsical style of Studio Ghibli through ChatGPT's new image generation feature, has caught the attention globally, including Musk. Users quickly embraced the feature, flooding social media platforms with AI-generated renditions of everything from their pets to famous figures, all rendered in the distinctive, dreamlike aesthetic of Studio Ghibli films.
Musk, not one to miss a viral moment, joined the online revelry by sharing his own take on the trend. In a post that quickly gained traction, Musk posted a meme that used the Ghibli style, to create a humorous image. Reports show that the image was of himself as Rafiki from the Lion King, holding up a doge coin mascot in air.

Notably, users can also create Ghibli-style photos with Grok as well as Google Gemini by either typing out detailed prompts or sharing an image with Grok and asking the chatbot to turn it into a Ghibli-style image.