ChatGPT puts real cartoonists' signatures on AI-generated comics

OpenAI's ChatGPT has put the signatures of several New Yorker cartoonists, including Brendan Loper, Harry Bliss and Emily Flake, on AI-generated comics. After a ChatGPT-made tribute cartoon to Dolly Parton and Tim Curry bearing the signature "BLOPER" went viral, Loper received many inquiries though he did not make it. The episode highlights how AI models are trained on scraped work without permission, adding legal risk.

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