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“Ghiblification for Privacy” by jefftk


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I often want to include an image in my posts to give a sense of a
situation. A photo communicates the most, but sometimes that's too
much: some participants would rather remain anonymous. A friend
suggested running pictures through an AI model to convert them into a
Studio
Ghibli-style cartoon, as was briefly a fad a few months ago:

House Party Dances

Letting
Kids Be Outside

The model is making quite large changes, aside from just converting to
a cartoon, including:

  • Moving people around
  • Changing posture
  • Substituting clothing
  • Combining multiple people into one
  • Changing races
  • Giving people extra hands
  • For my purposes, however, this is helpful, since I'm trying to
    illustrate the general feeling of the situation and an overly faithful
    cartoon could communicate [...]

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    First published:

    June 10th, 2025

    Source:

    https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/oc2EZhsYLWLKdyMia/ghiblification-for-privacy

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