It is regretful that I have to cancel my entire commission queue. Ever since my ER visit I no longer have had much strength to work on any of it.
If you are a pending client pls reach out with your email and I'll send you a refund when I can.
Aaaand another massive AI lawsuit just dropped 🔥
"Ziff Davis is one of the largest publishers in the U.S. with more than 45 sites globally, including IGN, CNET, Mashable, LifeHacker, and more."
I wanna also state, creators aren’t hoping for a change in the laws. Just that the laws are followed.
It’s AI companies who want a change in the law. In fact they want the laws straight up gutted as shown by their asks to the administration last week.
AAA games industry: live service, multiplayer, season passes, gazillion dollar budgets, laying off half their staff even if the products are successful
Meanwhile at Okomotive: Here’s a linear adventure game about going up a mountain with a bunch of weird yaks RT if u agree🥰
Remember Bucha.
Remember Izium.
Remember Mariupol.
Remember Volnovakha.
Remember the Ukrainian POW’s executed by ruSSia.
Remember the stolen Ukrainian children.
Remember that the US President extended the hand of friendship to the man responsible for all of that terror and more.
1000% this.
I’ve yet to see a GenAi advocate give an actual technical explanation to why GenAi’s non-consensual use of our works for the models to function at capacity is ok. They always revert to touchy feely nonsense about creativity that just excuses the real world harms.
We understand how GenAi works, in fact the more you learn about it, the more you realize how destructive it is. It steals, it replaces, it’s destroying the environment, and it is a labour theft tool from the top .01% made to suck up all forms of control and power.