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I find that really distasteful.

First of all, it would have to be fed numerous copyrighted images. That may well be legal; that's up to the lawyers. But I think it's unethical. It's trying to push some kind of "fair use" notion of taking ideas without reproducing their actual work pixel by pixel, but past the point I consider fair.

Second, I've already seen cases where artists are finding it hard to market their own work through the vast morass of computer-generated pastiches. One artist friend is now third in a Google search for her own name, behind mockeries of her work. My friend is a scientific illustrator, and the works being promoted under her name are usually full of objective errors that she would never make. It's damaging her reputation.

So... in deference to the artists, I'd ask that you not do this. These images are Ghibli's bread and butter. It's hard enough to make a living as an artist before people were automating plagiarism.