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Is ChatGPT Faking Signatures in AI Cartoons and Math?
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Firstpost•06-10-2026, 15:44
Is ChatGPT Faking Signatures in AI Cartoons and Math?
- •ChatGPT has generated AI cartoons featuring the actual signatures and pen names of real artists like Brendan Loper and Mario Miranda without their consent.
- •The appearance of forged signatures blurs the line between imitation and impersonation, misleading viewers into thinking artists created or approved the work.
- •Prominent New Yorker contributors and other cartoonists have increasingly found their unique styles and personal signatures replicated by AI models.
- •Similar concerns over attribution arose in mathematics after Tristan Buckmaster raised questions regarding OpenAI claiming credit for solving the Navier-Stokes problem.
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An AI-generated cartoon posted on Facebook by a Dolly Parton fan featured the pen name “BLOPER,” which belongs to New Yorker cartoonist Brendan Loper, after the user asked ChatGPT to create a New Yorker-style cartoon.
According to a Nieman Lab report, prominent New Yorker contributors including Harry Bliss, Emily Flake, Joe Dator, Pat Byrnes, Peter Vey, and Jason Adam Katzenstein have encountered AI-generated cartoons carrying their signatures or pen names.
Mathematician Tristan Buckmaster raised questions about whether OpenAI's systems had been exposed to his private mathematical drafts while he was studying a related version of the Navier–Stokes equations with AI assistance.
