Nieman Lab Uncovers ChatGPT Forging Cartoonist Signatures on AI-Generated New Yorker Comics
Nieman Lab's investigation reveals ChatGPT has been generating New Yorker-style cartoons bearing the unauthorized signatures of more than 15 real cartoonists, raising sharp questions about consent, attribution, and the boundaries of AI training data. The fake cartoons, generated through simple text prompts requesting "New Yorker-style" images, include signatures of prominent contributors including Brendan Loper, Emily Flake, Harry Bliss, Pat Byrnes, Joe Dator, Peter Vey, Jason Adam Katzenstein, and George Booth—often rendered with remarkable precision despite the cartoons themselves being crude or nonsensical.
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