How long before they ban all the open source models and hand a monopoly to the ones they are pretending to be mad at?
They want to treat software like a gun, they certainly won't let us run any of it on our own computers. It's a shame to see so many cheer for this.
His comic is open source. Might seem like a moot point seeing as how most comics can be seen on the web for free but it lets people use it for other stuff. From what I understand, a few of his comics have been turned into short animations and things like that. Kind of cool tbh.
My point is that once you can't tell, then you'll go back to judging a comic how you used to (a mix of art content + message content)
Right now, you first look if it's AI or not and toss it in the bin if it is. That's fine but are you going to start chasing down Krita files for everything you see in a month?
We are seriously close to not being to tell if a comic is AI generated, and I'm talking about raw output from a two sentence prompt.
Not the only value, just that it's the main one. Because we read comics to be entertained, not to marvel at someone's drawing talent. If comics were only about art quality, then we wouldn't have stick figure and paint drawings getting upvotes either.
Like I said, having something hand drawn well is always a huge positive, but it doesn't make up for trite low denominator content.
Good content + art > good content + AI > bad content + art
Going Art > AI no matter what just means you have little perspective and live your life through knee jerk reactions.
If you go just by content, his comics suck, deal with it.
It's crazy to imagine someone judging something on the value and enjoyment it brings them.
It means that once the comic output from AI is indistinguishable from the output of an artist, then people will stop concentrating on the tools used and go back to judging a comic on if it was funny or entertaining.
This guy draws really well but none of his comics are good. It's all trite boring pandering.
To be clear, I'm not saying hand made art has no value, just that a shit joke isn't somehow better than a good one just because of the tools used.
Good content + real art > Good content + AI > boring content + real art
If it's any consolation, we are nearing the point where it's legit impossible to tell and people will slowly go back to caring about the content instead.
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Are they actually asking for phone numbers now?
They are only doing one segment of users at a time and I'm guessing their metrics are telling them 90% of those users don't play ball and just stop visiting. I'm guessing they might go back on it in a bit.
The suicide probably makes it even more difficult for his family. Poor girl probably blames herself. (She shouldn't to be clear but still)