FOX 5's Teresa Priolo spoke with Robert Greener, an intellectual property lawyer, who suggests the tool is no different than if a single person created an animation that emulated the Studio Ghibli style.

The frenzy to create Ghibli-style AI art using ChatGPT's image-generation tool led to a record surge in users for OpenAI's chatbot last week, straining its servers and temporarily limiting the feature's usage.

OpenAI's ChatGPT may be the world's most popular chatbot app. But rival services are gaining, according to third-party traffic data.

ChatGPT has reached 500 million active users, with OpenAI reporting a surge of one million new users in a single hour, highlighting the chatbot's continued popularity.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in a post on X that ChatGPT added "one million users in the last hour." The big picture: The adoption of ChatGPT appears to be accelerating. Driving the news: OpenAI last week released a new-image generating feature that sparked a wave of Studio Ghibli,