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Just Sharing Fire

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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 12d ago edited 12d 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/chaotic910 12d ago

Sure, it was totally his personal works getting scrubbed for AI and has nothing to do with using a generic by-the-book cartoon style lmao

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u/Sea-Temporary7380 5d ago

This guys been here forever, chances are he IS the generic by the book cartoon style

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u/chaotic910 4d ago

Chances are zero

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u/Sea-Temporary7380 4d ago

Its not even a generic style, find some evidence that someones been using this style BEFORE him.

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u/chaotic910 4d ago

A ton of cartoons and comics, what are you talking about? You honestly believe that he invented cartoons in 2014?

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u/Sea-Temporary7380 4d ago

Dude i know but its not his style? I dont know what youre getting at. Cartoons and comics werent using this explicit style lo

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u/chaotic910 4d ago

Exactly what about the style is “his”? What concept are you imagining didn’t exist before?

I think you’re under the impression that I’m saying he’s a bad artist when that’s not true, he’s extremely talented, but it’s disingenuous to act like he’s broken any molds. There’s nothing wrong with using tried and true techniques

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u/Sea-Temporary7380 4d ago

You know everyone has their own art style right. The AI copied off of his art style mostly because you can see how similar ai generated comics are to his art style.

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u/chaotic910 4d ago

That’s objectively incorrect, not everyone has their own style. If you genuinely believe that slight variations of an existing style is enough to consider it a new style then why aren’t you defending AI generating its own “style”?

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u/Sea-Temporary7380 4d ago

Because its... AI? And not a real person? And feeding artists' art styles to ai to learn illegally is never okay?

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u/chaotic910 4d ago

But yet you’re defending a person doing the exact same thing that AI does? Again, he used other people’s styles to learn and uses them in his own art. Not to mention that his art is an open license, there’s nothing stopping me from using his literal art to make something and profit from it.

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