ChatGPT generates New Yorker-style cartoons with real cartoonists' signatures without permission
ChatGPT has been producing New Yorker-style cartoons that include the signatures of real cartoonists such as Brendan Loper, Harry Bliss, and Emily Flake, without their consent. The images have gone viral on social media, with one version receiving 25,000 likes on Twitter. Cartoonists say the use of their names feels like a violation of personhood and intellectual property, even as OpenAI claims…
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- ChatGPT generated cartoons signed by over 15 New Yorker cartoonists without permission
- One viral cartoon received 25,000 likes on Twitter after being shared by a Dolly Parton fan
- OpenAI says it added a warning after being notified but still generates some signed cartoons
ChatGPT is not only using New Yorker cartoonists' style but also adding their signatures to the fake cartoons it creates, which have gone viral on social media
niemanlab.org · 6 October 2026
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