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You into masks, baby? Kinky! I like that, baby, yeah! Behave!

These are cool! Are the scanned in from the comics?

Townscaper vibes

I find it crazy that Black Ops, a series that'd surely sell gangbusters with minimal marketing thanks to word of mouth, gets a marketing budget bigger than the GDP of a small country. Yet a new IP that noone has heard of yet gets a far smaller budget. It seems completely back to front, to me.

BROTHER, MAY I HAVE SOME ICE CREAM?

Well, can they?

Give her a medal

I'm not sure I understand your point. Are you saying that fan art cannot, by it's very nature, by classed as original and therefore shouldn't be able to be sold?

I love videos like this. There's a rapper called Harry Mack who does something similar and the wonder and delight that people express when he does his thing is infectious.

I have yet to meet any artist with this kind of deep anti-AI sentiment

Unfortunately this isn't the case. Just look at the anti AI discourse from people like Steven Zapata or Karla Ortiz, or the discussion on platforms like Mother's Basement or Art Cafe. There are plenty of artists who absolutely believe that AI art is worthless, without merit and is coming to destroy 'real artists'.

I think that's an overly simplistic description of how LLMs work, but I take your point. My response would be: how is a LLM trained on other artists work any different to a human artist taking inspiration from other human artists? Is an artist who creates fan art of Batman also derivative? In your argument it's a clear breach of copyright, so should we be going after anyone who has ever drawn a picture of Batman as having broken the law?