They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but an AI model straight-up impersonating a humble cartoonist is probably not what that adage was going for.
When a kitschy cartoon tribute to the recently deceased Dolly Parton and Tim Curry — dressed as Dr Frank-N-Furter from the 1975 cult classic “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” — going to heaven together went viral, New Yorker cartoonist Brendan Loper started getting messages from friends, family, and fans about whether he made it. After all, there was his unmistakable signature right there in the bottom corner: “BLOPER.”
But he had nothing to do with the cartoon. Some grieving Parton fam had cooked it up in ChatGPT and posted it online, before it blew up.
“It was very surreal,” he told Nieman Lab.
