In addition to the blatant theft of creative works, so-called AI systems have placed a burden on ethical creatives and publishers of all sorts to find ways to demonstrate they and the people they work with are NOT using those systems ... as if creative work wasn't difficult enough.
Will Ferrell has an enormous audience of straight dudes who need to hear this. Nothing but facts here about anti-trans bigotry:
I know they're not actually on here, and I am — as so often — behind the news in such things, but Erika Ishii getting shit for Ghost of Yotei is so fucking gross. Their work is awesome. Getting their voice and performances in both Veilguard and Yotei is a goddamn gift.
It’s really awful that if you’re a woman in the game industry, a dev or actor or anything, you’ll get harassed at some point in your career. It’s happened to every woman I know in this industry, me included. It’s just a thing we are expected to deal with, suffer through quietly, and never react to.
Or traced stock and available art, which is very likely.
New scam/spam post on ao3. A REGISTERED user prob mass commenting with the same comment in hopes that some naive person will think it's genuine. Found users Insta (not via link) and it looks like generic by the numbers style art I've seen a million times. So possibly gen ai. Reported their ass.
Portrait of Pathfinder Aeryn Ryder. This is my girl from my Mass Effect Andromeda fics! Painted using clupstudiopro. #masseffectfanart#digitalart#masseffectandromeda#pathfinderryder
