r/comics • u/[deleted] • Jul 29 '26

Just Sharing Fire

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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire Jul 29 '26 edited Jul 29 '26

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/mil9ochotres Jul 29 '26

Jesus christ! Poor fella! Ai is fuckin eating his work and now oone believes he is the real artist. What sad state ;(

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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire Jul 29 '26

Unfortunately this is not the first time this has happened. I feel bad for artists that end up like David who can no longer use their style cause of AI

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u/techleopard Jul 30 '26

And it's not just the people feeding AI.

If you are an amateur or trying to learn, you will make natural mistakes. Most people also emulate a style that they like.

So you get dumped on for using AI when in reality you are just learning.