“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 [...]

First published: June 10th, 2025

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

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