Libresse plagiarizes cartoonist Gemma Correll in international ad campaign

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Originally published at: Libresse plagiarizes cartoonist Gemma Correll in international ad campaign | Boing Boing

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[MononymousSean]

Wow, this isn’t even a “it was just part of the training data so don’t blame us, blame the AI”-type heist*. This is outright conscious THEFT.

*which I still have a problem with

[EmuRage]

They’ll find one unnamed employee to throw under the bus, tweet some meaningless PR non-apology to Gemma, and then do it all again the next time.

[GagHalfrunt]

They’ll probably blame the freelance illustrator working for the social media marketing consultancy working for the advertising agency.

[Mister44]

I hate seeing this stuff. Especially since they could have hired the original cartoonist to just do the ads.

[douglas_stuart]

Yep. You’d think someone in accounting would have pointed out that lawyers are more expensive than artists.

[timd]

There are several designs, all blatantly from the same source.