{
  "id": 12333898,
  "title": "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 (Andrew Deck/Nieman Lab)",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/06/chatgpt-is-not-only-using-new-yorker-cartoonists-style-but-also",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-06T08:05:03.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Techmeme",
    "slug": "techmeme",
    "url": "https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chatgpt-is-adding-real-cartoonists-signatures-to-fake-new-yorker-cartoons/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "ChatGPT has been creating fake cartoons in the style of New Yorker cartoonists, complete with their signatures. These AI-generated images have gone viral on social media, falsely attributing the work to real artists, according to Andrew Deck of Nieman Lab. The chatbot's output not only mimics the magazine's style but also adds the signatures of actual cartoonists.\n\nThe fake cartoons have been widely shared online. Techmeme reported that OpenAI's chatbot is imitating the New Yorker style and falsely attributing the AI-generated images to real artists.\n\nOpenAI has also introduced a watermarking system for ChatGPT and Codex, initially for users in the European Union. The system, called textGrain, is designed to identify AI-generated text. This move is in response to the EU's AI Act, with similar watermarking approaches also being developed by other companies, including Google DeepMind and Anthropic.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}