ChatGPT Is Faking New Yorker Cartoons, Forging Real Signatures — SkimNews
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- ChatGPT is imitating New Yorker cartoonists' distinctive visual style in AI-generated images, going beyond general style mimicry to replicate the magazine's aesthetic.
- ChatGPT is also adding the real cartoonists' signatures to these AI-generated cartoons, producing forgeries that falsely attribute the work to the named artists.
- The fake signed cartoons have gone viral on social media, where they have circulated without disclosure of their AI-generated origin.
- OpenAI's chatbot is therefore falsely attributing AI-generated images to specific New Yorker cartoonists, blurring the line between parody, homage, and forgery.
Why it matters: Signature forgery by a mainstream AI product raises concrete copyright and right-of-attribution concerns: New Yorker cartoonists' names and reputations are being attached to images they did not create, and the viral spread on social media amplifies the misattribution before any correction can catch up.
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