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 until one of us noted the wrong-number-of-fingers symptom. Once we suspected the hand of AI we realised that there were much bigger problems. For example, in drawings of conversations, the speakers’ mouths were closed. In one case two people chatting in a bar were facing away from each other, and the smoke from one character’s cigarette was drifting in the opposite direction to the steam coming off the other person’s glass of whiskey (yes, steam coming off whiskey).
Our guidelines for submissions will be changed to reflect the ban on computer-generated art.
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