AI lets you and me draw like famed Japanese animator

A new trend is taking over social media. Users use Chat GPT Pro to render selfies, portraits, memes — whatever — in the style of Hayao Miyazaki, the artistic genius behind movies like “Spirited Away” and “My Neighbor Totoro.” India’s Prime Minisher Nahendra Modi, Donald Trump, and Elon Musk have gotten in on it, using the feature to create propaganda images. Others have used it on violent or dark images like the murder of George Floyd. The World’s Sarah Birnbaum explains.

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