The following article is reproduced from the July 2025 edition of The Jester: The nefarious tendrils of [articifial intelligence] have already made themselves known within applications for the club, and it’s hard to avoid AI-drawn cartoons online regardless of quality. It’s clearly not going away. But that doesn’t mean we have to accept it, either. […]
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Worst A.I. effort ever
I have been tinkering with an artificial-intelligence (AI) system called Co-painter, primarily as a speedy way to colour in my black-and-white cartoons, and I thought I would try its text-to-image tool. This picture – incredibly – is what it came up with in response to this prompt: “Please draw a person in a motorcade through […]
Droodles
A “droodle” is a simple but cryptic sketch whose meaning you have to guess. The concept is attributed to the American humorist, author and publisher Roger Price, who published a book of them in 1953. They went on to become not just a popular fad but a syndicated feature in newspapers and magazines, and a television […]
NO A.I. PLEASE
The club’s committee has decided not to approve membership requests from people who claim to be cartoonists but generate their drawings using artificial intelligence. This follows receipt of a submission from someone whose sample cartoons consisted entirely of digital work that had been “assisted” by AI (his words when challenged). He almost had us fooled […]
Club Facebook contest
The Club has started a Facebook-based weekly cartoon challenge. Last week’s theme was ‘flying high’ and this is the winning entry, submitted by Ron McGeary. Each week the winner gets to nominate a theme for the next round, which is announced in a post on the Club’s private Facebook page . Members submit their entries […]
Webmaster’s pick
This one by Rob Murray is my favourite cartoon from Private Eye issue 1638. A lot of my own humour is about setting up an expectation and then demolishing it; what I love about this is that it demolishes a preconception that we all share. Visit Rob’s web site to see more.
