Reposted by Kiyara ΘΔ Hagfag
Witty, incisive and irreverent cartoonists are being replaced by AI, and the result all looks the same. Generic, sanitised and without a point of view.
"Not a great sign for a functioning democracy."
#SciComm
crikey.com.au
We cartoonists are a dying breed. It's a canary in the coalmine for a dysfunctional democracy
As New Yorker cartoonist Jason Chatfield writes, staff cartoonists used to be the only ones in the building paid to point at the building. Everyone else eventually answers to the owner, but they answe...
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