Police Called On Artist Accused Of Selling A.I. Art At Dragon Con
- Police were called to Dragon Con after an artist was accused of selling A.I.-generated artwork at their booth.
- Vendor Oriana Gerez faced backlash and was asked to leave, sparking heated debate across social media platforms.
- Dragon Con currently lacks a clear public policy addressing A.I. art in its Artist Alley or exhibition guidelines.
- Controversy follows past A.I. art incidents, with the Dragon Awards and Fan Expo Canada grappling with similar issues.
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Is that illegal?
It’s shitty, for sure, but cops don’t usually arrest people for just being shitty.
Per the comments on the article:
Probably refused to leave, or the situation in general was getting heated.
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<chef's kiss>
Good. AI garbage does not belong in art spaces.
Hurr durr but engineering prompts is an art!
Shit clickbait. Police had nothing to do with AI and everything with that guy refusing to leave
*lady
But why were they asked to leave?
Meanwhile Dragon Con’s vendor area is still half “mystery boxes.” Not much moral high ground amongst whoever is divvying out vendor spaces.
What kind of stuff is in the boxes? Action figures?
The stuff they couldn't sell the last few times before that.
Makes sense.
Yeah and other collectibles. Think loot boxes in real life.
I bet the kids eat it up.
They definitely seem to have real art on their site like the article says. I wonder if they had a mixture of things and rather than remove their AI generated stuff they fought with the management. Or they were just flat out asked to leave instead of given opportunity to fix it. I know a lot of traditional artists using AI now for posing and composition layout but they still do the panting etc. But it does look stifled sometimes. Like you can tell it’s been influenced by AI. It makes me sad. Especially since one of the artists used to be super fluid and expressive and now everything feels like they’re painting vectors :( which their merch distributor loves and encourages because it’s easier to print but I think it’s literally killed their business. I don’t think it’s “competitive” I think it’s convenient for a select few and killed their creativity. Fuck AI art.
It's not art. AI doesn't create art. It generates images.
I call it “AI output.”
Art is something made by a person as a form of expression. AI output is just AI output.
How do we know they sold AI generated images? Seems all the images on their site is hand made at least.
Yeah, throw him out, you also don't let people to run with cars on running competitions, so why would genAI art be better?
I am bothered by this. Has there been any confirmation that this vendor was trying to sell AI output rather than art, or was it just an accusation? I’ve seen too many witch hunts, false positives, and worse to blindly accept an AI accusation, and even the article doesn’t seem clear on it.
Should have called swat on them lol