“Ghiblification for Privacy” by jefftk

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:

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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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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