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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Images from the article:

Family dancing together in a sunlit room during a gathering.

Three children in raincoats playing in puddles during rainfall.

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“Ghiblification for Privacy” by jefftk

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