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San Diego Comic-Con changed an AI art friendly policy following an artist-led backlash last week. It was a small victory for working artists in an industry where jobs are slipping away as movie and video game studios adopt generative AI tools to save time and money.Every year, tens of thousands of people descend on San Diego for Comic-Con, the worlds premier comic book convention that over the years has also become a major pan-media event where every major media company announces new movies, TV shows, and video games. For the past few years, Comic-Con has allowed some forms of AI-generated art at this art show at the convention. According to archived rules for the show, artists could display AI-generated material so long as it wasnt for sale, was marked as AI-produced, and credited the original artist whose style was used.Material produced by Artificial Intelligence (AI) may be placed in the show, but only as Not-for-Sale (NFS). It must be clearly marked as AI-produced, not simply listed as a print. If one of the parameters in its creation was something similar to Done in the style of, that information must be added to the description. If there are questions, the Art Show Coordinator will be the sole judge of acceptability, Comic-Cons art show rules said until recently.These rules have been in place since at least 2024, but anti-AI sentiment is growing in the artistic community and an artist-led backlash against Comic-Cons AI-friendly language led to the convention quietly changing the rules. Twenty-four hours after artists called foul the AI-friendly policy, Comic-Con updated the language on its site. Material created by Artificial Intelligence (AI) either partially or wholly, is not allowed in the art show, it now says. AI is now banned at the art show.Comic and concept artist Tiana Oreglia told 404 Media Comic-Cons friendly attitude towards AI was a slippery slope towards normalization. I think we should be standing firm especially with institutions like Comic-Con which are quite literally built off the backs of artists and the creative community, she said. Oreglia was one of the first artists to notice the AI-friendly policy. In addition to alerting her circle of friends, she also wrote a letter to Comic-Con itself.Artist Karla Ortiz told 404 Media she learned about the AI-friendly policy after some fellow artists shared it with her. Ortiz is a major artist who has worked with some of the major studios who exhibit work at Comic-Con. Shes also got a large following on social media, a following she used to call out Comic-Cons organizers.Comic-con deciding to allow GenAi imagery in the art showgiving valuable space to GenAi users to show slop right NEXT to actual artists who worked their asses off to be thereis a disgrace! Ortiz said in a post on Bluesky. A tone deaf decision that rewards and normalizes exploitative GenAi against artists in their own spaces!According to Ortiz, the convention is a sacred place she didnt want to see desecrated by AI. Comic-Con is the big mecca for comic artists, illustrators, and writers, she said. I organize and speak with a lot of different artists on the generative AI issue. Its something that impacts us and impacts our lives. A lot of us have decided: No, were not going to sit by the sidelines.Oritz explained that generative AI was already impacting the livelihood of working artists. She said that, in the past, artists could sustain themselves on long projects for companies that included storyboarding and design. Suddenly the duration of projects are cut, she said. They got generative AI to generate a bunch of references, a bunch of boards. We already did the initial ideation, so just paint this. Paint what generative AI has generated for us.Ortiz pointed to two high profile examples: Marvel using AI to make the title sequence for Secret Invasion and Coca-Cola using AI to make Christmas commercials. You have this encroaching exploitative technology impacting almost every single level of the entertainment industry, whether youre a writer, or a voice actor, or a musician, a painter, a concept artist, an illustrator. It doesnt matterand then to have Comic-Con, that place thats supposed to be a gathering and a celebration of said creatives and their work, suddenly put on a pedestal the exploitative technology that only functions because of its training on our works? Its upsetting beyond belief.What is Comic-Con trying to tell the industry? She said, Its telling artists: Hey you, youre exploitable and youre replaceable.Ortiz was heartened that Comic-Con changed its policy. It was such a relief, she said. Generative AI is still going to creep its nasty way in some way or another, but at least its not something we have to take lying down. Its something we can actively speak out against.Comic-Con did not respond to 404 Medias request for comment, but Oreglia said she did hear back from art show organizer Glen Wooten. He basically told me that they put those AI stipulations in when AI was just starting to come around and that the inability to sell AI-generated works was meant to curtail people from submitting genAI works, she said. He seems to be very against genAI but wasn't really able to change the current policy until artists voiced their opinions loudly which pressured the office into banning AI completely.Despite changing policies and broad anti-AI sentiment among the artistic community, Oreglia has still seen an uptick of AI art at conventions. Although there are many cons that ban it outright and if you get caught selling it you basically will get banned. This happened to a vendor at Dragon Con last September. Organizers called police to escort the vendor off the premises.And I was tabling at Fanexpo SF and definitely saw genAI in the dealers hall, none in the artists alley as far as I could see though but I mostly stuck to my table, she said. I was also at Emerald City Comic Con last year and they also have a no-ai policy but fanexpo doesn't seem to have those same policies as far as I know.AI image generators are trained on original artwork so whatever output a tool like Midjourney creates is based on an artists work, often without compensation or credit. Oreglia also said she feels that AI is an artistic dead end. Everything interesting, uplifting, and empowering I find about art gets stripped away and turned into vapid facsimiles based on vibes and trendy aesthetics, she said.

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LOS ANGELESLeaning forward in his seat as a number of questions raced through his mind, Dwayne Johnson was reportedly intrigued Monday after learning there was a special trophy for good actors.Huh, interestingand you said they give them out every year? asked Johnson, who frowned as he racked his brain in an attempt to recall if any of the orange blimps, WWE belts, or other assorted awards on display in his study had been given to him by the academy his dinner companions had mentioned. So the statue is a man, but do you have to be a man to earn one? No? I see, I see. Well, how good of an actor do you have to be? Really good, or just good-good? Is there a certain movie you need to be in?At press time, reports confirmed the veteran pro wrestler was even more confused after being told that sometimes an actor didnt even need to be good to receive one.The post Dwayne Johnson Intrigued After Learning About Special Trophy For Good Actors appeared first on The Onion.

CHICAGOCalling attention to the startling lack of tied-up cherry stems in the average diet, health experts from the American Medical Association warned Tuesday that Americans were not sensually eating enough fruit.While its recommended that adults erotically suck on at least two pieces of fruit daily, many people are falling far short of that, said Dr. Logan Toledano, emphasizing how essential it is for overall health and well-being to sumptuously lick a strawberry in a slow, circular motion before taking a big, wet bite. Over the past 20 years, weve seen a marked decline in the amount of peach juice dripping down cleavage. While some might prefer to run their tongue up and down a melting ice cream cone or eat sushi off a bare stomach, theres simply no replacement for moaning with tantalizing pleasure while eating grapes.Toledano added that Americans could easily introduce more succulent fruit into their diet by deep-throating a banana.The post Health Experts Warn Americans Not Sensually Eating Enough Fruit appeared first on The Onion.

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