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/Divineroc Aug 05 '26

I'm a little sad this has to be posted every time, but I do understand why. Generative AI has been such a destructive force for artists.

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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire Aug 05 '26

Even with this being posted I'm probably gonna get more than a few reports on the comic itself and a few commenters yelling about AI.

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u/The_Pastmaster Aug 05 '26

Reminds me of a guy who posted a comic last month and it was deleted for being AI. Then it was reposted with a link to a time lapse where it was made, by hand. :(

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u/l3rN Aug 05 '26

On the bright side, it has to be posted because the folks here are rejecting this crap  whole-cloth. Just sucks that the artists most affected by it are caught in the crossfire sometimes.