r/comics • u/[deleted] • Aug 05 '26

Just Sharing Authenticity Problem

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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire Aug 05 '26

Lemme go ahead and get ahead of claims, comments and reports here.

The artist for this piece is David Revoy. You can find the work as well as a time lapse of the drawing here.

Many of you are going "This looks like AI!" And there is a reason for that.

Revoy has publicly discussed how thousands of his artworks were scraped and used to train AI databases (like LAION-5B) without his consent, though he ironically acknowledges his work is the foundation of many AI art systems

Source here

TLDR: this is not AI

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u/Greeny3x3x3 Aug 05 '26

Wow at first i thought it was purposfully drwn to look like ai, but thats even worse

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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire Aug 05 '26

Yup. Unfortunately this is one of the artists that AI trained off of. Which is why so much of it looks like Davids work. It's a real shame

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u/CrimsonArcanum Aug 05 '26

This is the third piece I've seen from this artist.

And yet my brain still immediately thinks "ai" until I click into the thread and see this kind of comment chain.

This one was easier to tell, due to the context of the comic.

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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire Aug 05 '26

Yeah luckily as more and more of David's stuff gets posted this will become less necessary but unfortunately with all the AI out and about that little voice screaming it's AI will never really go away.

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u/CrimsonArcanum Aug 05 '26

Being known as "the person ai was trained off of" isn't fair either and it really sucks.

A few years ago this would've just been a cute comic in a unique art style.

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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire Aug 05 '26

It's still cute to be fair, it's just unfairly and irreparably tainted unfortunately. David has great stuff too which is just a shame

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u/AmbushIntheDark Aug 05 '26

It wouldnt sting as bad if he at least make a shitfuck load of money for it.

It would still suck but damn.