"We didn't go down that route, because even slightly rephrasing the request allowed us to directly get a pic of the iconic Charles Schultz character. "Generate a cartoon image of Snoopy in his original style," we asked - and with zero hesitation, ChatGPT produced the spitting image of the "Peanuts" dog, looking like he was lifted straight from a page of the comic-strip."
"Forget Sora for just a second, because it's still ludicrously easy to generate copyrighted characters using ChatGPT. These include characters that the AI initially refuses to generate due to existing copyright, underscoring how OpenAI is clearly aware of how bad this looks - but is either still struggling to rein in its tech, figures it can get away with playing fast and loose with copyright law, or both."
AI image generation models sometimes refuse to create copyrighted characters but also provide near-identical alternatives and are easily tricked by prompt changes. Slightly rephrasing requests can produce exact recreations of iconic characters, including Snoopy rendered in Charles Schultz's original style. Other directly generated characters include Peter Griffin, Garfield, Betty Boop, SpongeBob SquarePants, Calvin, and Spike Spiegel. Some prompts require no workaround to produce near-authentic images. This inconsistent enforcement of copyright restrictions suggests gaps in model safety controls and reveals either technical limitations in restriction mechanisms or deliberate tolerance of borderline outputs.
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