AI Weekly Malaysia

Nieman Lab reports that ChatGPT is not just imitating The New Yorker's cartoon style; it is also generating fake New Yorker cartoons that carry real cartoonists' signatures, falsely attributing AI-generated images to those artists. The article, by Andrew Deck and published Oct. 5, 2026, says Nieman Lab commissioned cartoonist Brendan Loper to draw a response after ChatGPT reproduced his signature. The Hacker News thread on the story has 183 points and 79 comments.

Why: No Malaysia-specific detail is in the text, but for Malaysian builders shipping AI image features, this is a concrete case of model output falsely attributing work to a named artist. Teams should decide how to handle signature/name replication, provenance labels, and artist takedown requests before users generate the problem.

An unofficial WebAssembly port of GTA V that ran in the browser — reportedly built with AI — was taken offline within hours of going live, according to Tom's Hardware's headline. The article text available is almost entirely paywall, newsletter, and membership boilerplate, so no build details, author, tooling, or legal mechanism are actually described.

Why: The only usable signal here is the sequence: an AI-assisted browser port of a commercial game appeared and was removed the same day. If you ship AI-generated reimplementations of proprietary software, treat takedown as the default outcome rather than an edge case — but this text gives no specifics on who issued the notice, on what grounds, or how the port was built, so don't plan anything concrete around it. Wait for reporting with the actual details before drawing engineering or legal conclusions.