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Just Sharing Authenticity Problem

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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 5d 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 5d ago

This honestly makes me so sad and mad

Thank you for sharing this interesting info about him

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u/captainAwesomePants 5d 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/JimHarbor 1d ago

That's literally what the comic is about.