AI Re-Imagines original cartoons

From The Daily Cartoonist.

It seems a fairly new YouTube uploader is taking cartoonists’ original cartoons, “re-imagining” (read: swiping) them through the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI), and then passing them off as their own.

Original Jack Ohman cartoon

Pedro X. Molina noted and provided samples:

I found this online and thought you might find it interesting. I have no problem with the ethical use of technology, but what I am attaching here is… well, something else. 

There is someone who goes by the name of “AmeriSatire” and/or “ToonAmerica” who is stealing our cartoons, “redrawing” them with AI, signing them and uploading them to Social Media.

As seen below AI has changed the drawing a bit while leaving the basic layout and perspective, but the plagiarists mostly leave the script exactly the same.