When online commenters 'detect' my art as AI
David Revoy has drawn and published in the open for more than twenty years, timelapses and source files included, and he has started collecting the screenshots of strangers telling him his work is AI across Reddit, YouTube, Instagram and Facebook. The accusations are getting more frequent and more confident. The particular cruelty is that his own catalogue was scraped to train the generators now producing the house style he is accused of copying, so the resemblance is real and the causation runs the other way. He turned it into a Pepper and Carrot strip, Authenticity Problem, in which Cepper refuses AI help, is told her painting has the yellow tint and the bad fingers, and the AI parrot that learned its style from her work looks on. This is what an unauthorised training set costs the person it was taken from, long after the copyright argument has moved on.
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