"'I've had people hack my credit card', said Joe Dator, a New Yorker contributor for the past 20 years. 'That feels like less of a violation than this. When they hacked my credit card, they didn’t dress up like me.'"

Andrew Deck (NiemanLab) on ChatGPT both imitating real artists AND stealing their signatures for synthetic cartoons:

https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chatgpt-is-adding-real-cartoonists-signatures-to-fake-new-yorker-cartoons/

#AI #cartoons #fakes