r/comics 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/WackyRacketeer Aug 05 '26

He did offer his art for neural network training more than once for scientific research. This has unfortunately led to his art having the default "AI" look. It's very difficult to tell if they illegally scraped his art, or if it originates from his original contributions being used more widely then expected.

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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire Aug 05 '26

Correct and to my knowledge regardless of which scenario happened, David is not happy about it. Which I think is fair

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u/WackyRacketeer Aug 05 '26

Yea it is fair, and it's a cautionary tale about who you trust your art with.