Some vendors at Dragon Con are replacing original artwork with AI generated pieces. Some pieces are selling as much as $500 USD. Parts of me which love seeing how passionate people are of animation, anime, and comic books and who spend countless hours, sometimes days creating art pieces are being displaced. For many of these vendors, creating art is how they make a living. AI taking up their space sucks.
Thoughts?
"Fan Conventions Are Drawing The Line On AI ‘Slop’" by Rob Salkowitz at Forbes
https://www.forbes.com/sites/robsalkowitz/2025/09/04/fan-conventions-are-drawing-the-line-on-ai-slop/A snippet:
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Last weekend, an exhibitor in the artists alley of Atlanta’s Dragon Con was escorted off the show floor by police for violating the show’s policy against selling AI-generated work. It was the latest and most visible example of creators and creator-oriented events stigmatizing the use of tools that the tech world has bet the future on. In the wake of Dragon Con’s actions, several other large fan conventions have clarified or underlined their policies protecting the role of human artists.
According to an account from Dane Ault, an exhibitor at Dragon Con, a booth registered to Oriana Gertz Art had been accused of selling AI-generated prints at their booth in Artist Alley. Vendors and fans complained to organizers. On the final day of the show, after failing to produce convincing evidence that the work was made by humans, the occupants of the booth were evicted by Atlanta police. A sign was placed on the empty table stating “Vendor removed for selling AI,” and the table became a rallying point for fans.
This post was edited by UAPtictac on Sep 5 2025 10:08am