Damn, I wish I had seen that in person. (I barely visited that part of the con – I made a beeline to Bil Holbrook’s booth to congratulate him on 30 years of Kevin and Kell, and then left again because I was in a hurry to get to a panel.)
That is a name I hadn’t thought of for awhile. I should go read it again, got a decade to catch up on!
I’ll be honest: I hadn’t thought of it in a while either, until I ran across this post the other day. I used to read it in the newspaper, but quit subscribing and neglected to add it to my webcomic bookmarks, so I need to catch up too!
Boom! Headshot.
Oh man… I’m gonna be on the lookout for this garbage when I’m at BLFC. I don’t want to end up giving money to a fraud.
I saw something about the cops being called on them or another vendor selling ai art, which is as hilarious as it is maybe a bit overkill.
From what I’ve read, it was because they refused to leave.
Yeah that makes sense.
Apparently, it was a regular artist who got the booth (you have to send images to the organizers of what you’re going to sell), but her boyfriend did some AI art and swapped it in on the second day.
I haven’t seen any mention of that, the person knew they were selling ai slop and were arrogant about it.
swapped it in
With the knowledge of the girlfriend? That’s scummy. Without? Pretty fucked up.
Surely she would have to be aware of it? It can’t possibly be good to have no recollection or recognition of what it is you’re selling.
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How much for the cardboard sign?
White oil marker might be 5$, cardboard is free with any pizza
Even comes pre-oiled!
Perfect for any artist who forgets his grease pencil
Whoever thinks they could get away with such tripe at Dragon Con, full of the most rabid fans of the characters they’re “arting”. Not to mention the copyright issues.
This reminds me so much of the HDR photo craze. I remember seeing booths just like this!
Going to local restaurants/attractions and seeing shitty “art” with price tags starting over $200. They were all bad digital photos, taken with no comprehension or awareness of lighting, perspective, composition, etc. Cloddishly fiddle with various sliders, maybe delete the entire green color channel for some reason, hey I discovered this filter called Posterize, hit print.
A third of them were angle shots of the photo-takers modded Subaru. I’m trying to paint a picture here, don’t take it literally.
I am sincerely hoping, despite my positions against AI for most applications, that there will be some positive effects in the end from this AIArt baloney.
I think the same-y-ness of what the visual generators are outputting will wear so thin on people, so quickly. Because in a broad sense they’re all drawing from the same “averaging out”. And maybe there will be a bit of a cultural backlash, if you will, where people unconsciously become attracted back to hand made things. I don’t think we as a huge collective blob of humanity will be able to stand hearing the same note over and over.
Maybe I’m deluding myself, hell I probably am to a degree.
Holy shit, this brought a big smile to my face today, thank you! 😄
Can’t even run cons at cons anymore. What’s the world coming to?
It’s dragoncon, the con needs to be ran by a dragon
Kevin O’Leary?
I bet this guy was selling AI images of a dragon playing the 3-cup-game with another dragon pretending to be in on it to build hype.
of course not, you don’t want to mess with recursions in production
They should throw a con at the main source of cons: the constitution!
This reminds me of an old story I heard about how a very talented pottery artist got a lifetime ban from the handcraft fair for selling molded products (pottery made with molds, not by hand).
It was interesting because his quality items actually were handcrafted, he just had molded basic stuff on the side that I guess was selling decently well.
Would be funny if an AI booth did the same.
Apparently from what I heard, Toronto comic con was full of Ai art tables. They have to be the most disorganized convention I’ve ever seen, they don’t care about security, safety, fire codes, overcrowding,etc. every year it gets bigger and the venue doesn’t, it’s not even fun anymore
I am an artist who works exclusively in the medium of gummy
bears?
Venus de Milos
I like the coffee stain there. Makes it seem more like he got black bagged than asked forcefully to leave.
What if actual artist are using AI to enhance their art. Like, they draw stuff and then scan and edit with AI imaging software to make changes and add depth, etc. Is that allowed? It’s still an artist creating art, they just enhance it with readily available editing software?
What if you just get better at doing your art instead of using a skills-reducing crutch?
What if you also made it clear that a large part of your art is AI-created instead of passing it off as human-made?
What if you stopped making disingenuous arguments in favour of slop?
It’s not me or my art. Dude is an amazing artist, in any media format. I am not being disengenous, nice try. I am also not defending fake AI art as art. Just like any tool, in the right hands it can craft marvelous things. How is using rendering software any different? It just speeds up the process, but time and effort are still applied. You have to know how to use it to use it well. He does t generate images, he enhances his own art. He also went back to school on his 40s to study machine learning because he finds it fascinating and cool. Not your average Joe.
OK. Replace “you” with “your friend from Canada who totally really exists and isn’t made up for rhetorical purposes”.
Hey man, believe what you want. You are wrong and I ain’t afraid of telling you so. I’ll bet a million bucks you don’t know a single artist. I know dozens of them, but only one that likes to use AI, that I am aware of. Not a lot of use for it in the sculpture medium I suppose? I’m an artist to, though not commercially. I can barely draw, have no interest in using AI for anything. I’m just saying, but you’re not here for it. Cool. Big boogey man scary! I get it.
Right. I’m not here for AI slop boosting. Absolutely correct.
This is why the group is called, literally “Fuck AI”.
Maybe you need to find or start a “Can I Please Orally Service AI?” group.
Oh, I thought one could have a discussion, not just take it into the street and beat it with a bat. Sorry, my bad.
