“(L)ast week, Nieman Lab revealed that OpenAI’s ChatGPT has been producing counterfeit New Yorker-style cartoons—complete with the unauthorized signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists.
“It’s worth noting that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, one of the toadying oligarchs immortalized in Telnaes’s banned cartoon, donated $1 million to Trump’s inauguration fund. To my knowledge, he hasn’t offered a nickel to the cartoonists whose work he’s plundered.”
https://www.borowitzreport.com/p/the-war-on-cartoonists
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