ChatGPT keeps signing fake New Yorker cartoons with real artists' names

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WTF?! AI companies have long faced accusations from artists, authors, and researchers that they scrape copyrighted material without permission to train their models. A more recent investigation has found that ChatGPT has not only been generating cartoons that mimic The New Yorker's signature style, but also adding the real signatures of the magazine's cartoonists to the AI-generated work.

According to Nieman Lab, ChatGPT has been producing artwork suspiciously similar in style and content to cartoons previously published in The New Yorker. More troubling, the investigation found that the chatbot added forged signatures from several real cartoonists, which led some viewers to assume humans had drawn the images.

The issue drew wider attention after the death of country music legend Dolly Parton in August, when an AI-generated cartoon of the singer went viral,...

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