2021/08/29

AI-Generated “The New Yorker” Cartoons Test Limits of the Non-Sequitor, Creators Ilan Manouach and Yannis Siglidis Say

The Neural Yorker explores the limits of an important feature in the history and the modes of address of cartoon making: the non sequitur.”
– Conceptual comic artist Ilan Manouach and AI engineer Yannis Siglidis, discussing their neural network cartoon engine. Trained on art and captions extracted from The New Yorker cartoons, Manouach and Siglidis’ The Neural Yorker pumps out instantly recognizable but nonsensical pastiches on Twitter—“with hilarious (and sometimes unsettling) results.”
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