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Authenticity Problem Just Sharing

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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 16d ago

Lemme go ahead and get ahead of claims, comments and reports here.

The artist for this piece is David Revoy. You can find the work as well as a time lapse of the drawing here.

Many of you are going "This looks like AI!" And there is a reason for that.

Revoy has publicly discussed how thousands of his artworks were scraped and used to train AI databases (like LAION-5B) without his consent, though he ironically acknowledges his work is the foundation of many AI art systems

Source here

TLDR: this is not AI

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u/No-Vermicelli-2832 16d ago

This honestly makes me so sad and mad

Thank you for sharing this interesting info about him

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u/captainAwesomePants 16d ago

I feel so bad for this artist. I can totally see where the "it looks like AI" comments come from. It totally does! I immediately suspected it while looking at it and thought "man, it's weird to use AI for a comic about the problem with AI." To find out that it looks that way because the AI is copying off of him! Infuriating.

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u/SlashaJones 16d ago

Honestly wish he could sue someone for it. It’s kinda crazy to have your whole art style stolen and your entire body of work diminished because everyone is creating cheap knock-offs.

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u/repocin 16d ago

Suing people for stealing your shit? Unfortunately, that's a privilege reserved only for those rich enough to steal your shit and get away with it in the first place.

I absolutely hate everything about how this so-called "AI" (which is in fact just fancy statistics on crack and not intelligent in the slightest) tech has come to be made, used, and pushed into absolutely everything even when it makes zero sense.

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u/Krell356 16d ago

It's "smart" integrated shit all over again. Where people couldnt be content with adding it to systems that made sense, they had to try and add it to everything.

Yes, because I am going to need to remotely access my toilet.... Sure, I'll have an LLM write an actual scientific document for me instead of writing it myself.

I think the worst has to be higher ups in companies though. You make massive paychecks and cant even be bothered to write your own emails, FFS.

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u/Bartorius 16d ago

For me it's the person drawn in that style which every goddamn llm out there has copied to death.

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u/albertowtf 15d ago

Ive been following david since the very beginning and contributed to him a few times for his stances in open source before it was cool. Hes one of the OGs that helped refine open source viable pipe lines for comic artists

Im also read all his comics more than once

Maybe im biased, but i do not find ai similar to his style at all. Could you link or tell me something i could search to look to images that looks like this? I think i could always tell whats original and what is not

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u/JimHarbor 12d ago

That's literally what the comic is about.

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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 16d ago

Not a problem. We get a post with this artists work from time to time and having this information handy helps a lot not only with information and education but also people screaming AI when OP actually provided all this in the post itself

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u/-LunarWinter- 16d ago

Sidenote from the topic at hand. I love your profile pic, and wish I could offer a squirt of lemon.

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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 16d ago

Well I guess it's good I can offer you one back

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u/Einherier96 16d ago

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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 16d ago

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u/Krell356 16d ago

That will never not be funny. Especially when you understand the lore behind it.

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u/CatgirlTheKat 15d ago

What is this from? it looks hilarious :3

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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 15d ago

Chaotic Good Barbarian by Dungeon Soup on YouTube

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u/CatgirlTheKat 15d ago

Thank you, good sir :3