

I don’t care if it’s AI or a human artist. Using the same artistic style is not the same as copyright infringement. If you make depictions of a specific Ghibli character or scene that would be one thing. They want to ban people from making their own unique images and characters, including self portraits, in a specific style. That’s more like trying to take ownership of a color of paint. “Can’t use red in any of your paintings or drawings, red belongs to me.”
How is that different than a human artist using their eyes to look at some Ghibli art, taking inspiration from the style, and making a unique drawing or painting with the same style? Artists take inspiration from and copy the style of other artists all the time. If I had the ability to copy the style of Leonardo da Vinci and if I made a painting of my daughter posing like the Mona Lisa on a street in New York, would I be counterfeiting the Mona Lisa? Same style, same pose, different character different backdrop, inspired by the original but not a copy of the original.