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to-zo's not/but comics that Speak to me

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There’s a protest going on against AI art over on artstation, so I feel like now is the time for me to make a statement on this issue! 

I wholeheartedly support the ongoing protest against AI art. Why? Because my artwork is included in the datasets used to train these image generators without my consent. I get zero compensation for the use of my art, even though these image generators cost money to use, and are a commercial product. 

Musicians are not being treated the same way. Stability has a music generator that only uses royalty free music in their dataset. Their words: “Because diffusion models are prone to memorization and overfitting, releasing a model trained on copyrighted data could potentially result in legal issues.” Why is the work of visual artists being treated differently?

Many have compared image generators to human artists seeking out inspiration. Those two are not the same. My art is literally being fed into these generators through the datasets, and spat back out of a program that has no inherent sense of what is respectful to artists. As long as my art is literally integrated into the system used to create the images, it is commercial use of my art without my consent.

Until there is an ethically sourced database that compensates artists for the use of their images, I am against AI art. I also think platforms should do everything they can to prevent scraping of their content for these databases. 

Artists, speak out against this predatory practice! Our art should not be exploited without our consent, and we deserve to be compensated when our art is exploited for commercial use. 

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Ranni the Witch for all ye tarnished

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A friend of mine's pirate captain character. She's the Jem of the treasure horde. 💎

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Po Yo, Po Yo, a pirate's life for Kir...by!

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It's the last day of mermay and I want to share with everyone a full illustration I did a month ago that I'm very proud of!

I share the work process and PSD files over on my Patreon.

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Yoink!

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Drew my first mermaid for #mermay

Tats are cool, mermaids are cool, check out my profile for more cool mermaids with tats 🧜‍♀️

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Merry Christmas Everyone!

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Pokemon trainer Lass added to my small but growing collection of gen 1 trainers :)

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Please make more art based on pokemon trainers!!!!

Sure ;)

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Charlotte the pirate🍺

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Bug Catcher

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I really wanted an excuse to draw an upside down Golbat hanging from someone's arm.

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A touch of magic 🪄

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You can't tell me this isn't the proper use of the right hand of destruction.

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I finished a huge chunk of my client work so now I get to have fun with Halloween art. It seems the only fate a pirate has is either becoming a ghost or a skeleton.