Ryan Allan/Eyekoo

Meet Fynn: A courageous and stubborn frog who’s skilled with a sword. Read more about him in The Rats of Ironwood. Available exclusively through my website. Support indie comics! Dereklaufman.Com/shop #frog #sword #fantasy #indiecomics

If I could get 600K views on something important like my NEXT book rather than a pic of an ugly waffle... kickstarter.com/projects/derek…

I’m excited to announce that I’m bringing my new WICKERSON anthology edition to KICKSTARTER! I hope you all considering supporting it! You can sign up for the PRE-LAUNCH page and get notified when it goes live! kickstarter.com/projects/derek… RT’s appreciated 🙏

Execs be like : “Record breaking box office success? QUICK go fire the entire Oscar-award winning visual development team, who was responsible for designing all the visuals of our record breaking box office successes!” Corporate sociopaths.

If you use AI in your film, I have no interest in watching it. There’s so many choices of the things to watch out there, I’ll watch something else.

Millions of wrong answers — every single day. trib.al/sF1E57e

Adding REALISM while being PAINTERLY【sebijy】Art Review youtu.be/lIeEIPmHd4s?si… via @YouTube @artofdaviii 🙏

‘Tech companies believe in intellectual property, but not yours.” Great piece in The Atlantic pointing out that AI companies spend huge amounts of money simultaneously (i) defending their own IP and (ii) arguing that they can use other people’s for free. theatlantic.com/technology/202…

I think @maximilian_ nailed generative AI right on the head

Today, we're publishing Don't Steal This Book - a (mostly) empty book from almost 10,000 authors, protesting the theft of their work by AI companies. The UK government is considering upending copyright law to benefit AI companies. Don’t Steal This Book urges them not to. Apart from the list of authors involved, the book is empty, representing the effect the government’s plans would have on authors' livelihoods. We're handing out 1,000 free copies at London Book Fair over the next couple of days. If you’re there, pick up a copy! A huge thank you to the thousands of authors involved. Read more here: theguardian.com/technology/202… #DontStealThisBook

Only noticed yesterday that, at long last, you can reduce the the slop appearing on your Pinterest feed. It's probably not perfect, but might make at least a small difference. Check your Refine Recommendations setting.

Yes, everyone should #QuitGPT. But while you’re at it, do yourself & the world a favor and quit all LLM’s. They are all rooted in strip mining our souls, expropriating our cultural expressions, reifying bias, destroying the environment & enriching the worst people on the planet.

Artist Molly Crabapple says AI art generators are scraping art from the web without artists’ consent. She calls it “the greatest art heist in history.” cbsn.ws/476QfIC

AI boosters will not stop calling people’s copyrighted work - that is, creative works that those people *own* - “public data”. Just the most disingenuous, gross misdirection. Stop claiming other people’s work as your own, you ghouls.

1. OMG @mollycrabapple! Amazing! 2. Fun fact: the person claiming they are making “ethical models” is using FLUX as a foundational model making this “ethical model” still reliant on billions of artists ill gotten data. What a sham! @60Minutes please let your viewers know that!

Nobody, and I repeat, absolutely nobody should ever upload their medical information into an AI platform. I am telling you this as a former intelligence officer.

"Artists are gatekeepers, stop gatekeeping!"

Human Artistry Campaign Statement on Seedance 2.0 AI Video Generator

I tested out the @Fantech_World EOS Mini as a shortcut remote for digital art. Cheap, compact, and fun way to add some extra convenience if you don't want to reach for a keyboard. Unfortunately, it's only compatible with PC for this purpose. Review here: youtu.be/CRjJBKvwlyE

I am starting a studio! We are small and scrappy and have no money. Why am I doing this? Because the only ones who can protect art are the ones who value it. Disney using AI? Yuck. Netflix buying WB? Also yuck. In 10 years what is even going to be left.