Is that illegal?

It’s shitty, for sure, but cops don’t usually arrest people for just being shitty.

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Good. AI garbage does not belong in art spaces.

Shit clickbait. Police had nothing to do with AI and everything with that guy refusing to leave

Meanwhile Dragon Con’s vendor area is still half “mystery boxes.” Not much moral high ground amongst whoever is divvying out vendor spaces.

It's not art. AI doesn't create art. It generates images.

They definitely seem to have real art on their site like the article says. I wonder if they had a mixture of things and rather than remove their AI generated stuff they fought with the management. Or they were just flat out asked to leave instead of given opportunity to fix it. I know a lot of traditional artists using AI now for posing and composition layout but they still do the panting etc. But it does look stifled sometimes. Like you can tell it’s been influenced by AI. It makes me sad. Especially since one of the artists used to be super fluid and expressive and now everything feels like they’re painting vectors :( which their merch distributor loves and encourages because it’s easier to print but I think it’s literally killed their business. I don’t think it’s “competitive” I think it’s convenient for a select few and killed their creativity. Fuck AI art.

How do we know they sold AI generated images? Seems all the images on their site is hand made at least.

Yeah, throw him out, you also don't let people to run with cars on running competitions, so why would genAI art be better?

I am bothered by this. Has there been any confirmation that this vendor was trying to sell AI output rather than art, or was it just an accusation? I’ve seen too many witch hunts, false positives, and worse to blindly accept an AI accusation, and even the article doesn’t seem clear on it.