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



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The model is making quite large changes, aside from just converting toa 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 toillustrate the general feeling of the situation and an overly faithfulcartoon 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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