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'Gruffalo' illustrator intends legal action over AI-generated images

“I'm appalled - that's quite clearly my character, only the backgrounds look completely different to how I draw them”

— dpa (via Yahoo News)

What happened

German newspaper Die Zeit asked ChatGPT for a Gruffalo picture and got images strikingly like Axel Scheffler's drawings within minutes. Scheffler, who drew the original Gruffalo, says he is now considering legal action; OpenAI says it is investigating.

Read it at dpa (via Yahoo News) ↗