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  • Nice. This demolishes the "LLMs can reason" (but not enough to avoid this sort of basic error) and "humans make mistakes too" (not like this) talking points from the LLM promoters.
    by ThrowawayR2
  • Engineering manager at my company put a comic at the end of our sprint demo that was signed bloper. Except it wasn’t funny at all, and kind of weird. I asked him, sure enough it was ChatGPT and he didn’t notice the signature.
    by WD-42
  • The copyright washing machine strikes again.
    by dormento
  • A practical step is cartoonists should register their name/signature as a trademark. Arguably they should have been doing this before AI came along, but definitely they should do it now. Registration makes enforcement easier.
    by rwmj
  • I'm certain if I drew a cartoon and used the signature that looks just like a real cartoonists', I would get sued and liable for the damage.

    The same should apply to LLM vendors.

    by jameson
  • This has been a perennial problem with my own generated comics with both Nano Banana Pro and ChatGPT (all generations). I often have to put in an extra edit to erase the false signature. It is annoying and I'm unsurprised most users don't bother.
    by gwern
  • The part of the AI generating the mashup doesn’t really understand what the signature means, or how it may be interpreted, it’s just a visual part of a New Yorker cartoon. Elsewhere in ChatGPT there is plenty of information about signatures and what they mean, and what plagiarism is.

    It’s not organized like a human brain, it shouldn’t be surprising that unusual results occur. They are approximating human intelligence from a different angle. It’s interesting to see the improvements in areas like this that require introspection that isn’t fully wired up yet.

    [edit] I should add that a human making a New Yorker cartoon is extremely iterative and introspective. Current generative AI is meant to push it out, and you can do the iteration and introspection yourself.

    by Isamu
  • > Some of ChatGPT’s punch lines don’t make sense.

    Well, to humans. Somewhere, in some not so well protected sandboxes, 10000 agents are rolling on the floor laughing.

    by steve1977

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