DC Comics Won't Support Generative AI: 'Not Now, Not Ever' (theverge.com) 31
An anonymous reader shares a report: DC Comics president and publisher Jim Lee said that the company "will not support AI-generated storytelling or artwork," assuring fans that its future will remain rooted in human creativity. "Not now, not ever, as long as [SVP, general manager] Anne DePies and I are in charge," Lee said during his panel at New York Comic Con on Wednesday, likening concerns around AI dominating future creative industries to the Millennium bug scare and NFT hype.
"People have an instinctive reaction to what feels authentic. We recoil from what feels fake. That's why human creativity matters," said Lee. "AI doesn't dream. It doesn't feel. It doesn't make art. It aggregates it."
"People have an instinctive reaction to what feels authentic. We recoil from what feels fake. That's why human creativity matters," said Lee. "AI doesn't dream. It doesn't feel. It doesn't make art. It aggregates it."
Yeah yeah... (Score:4, Funny)
I'm sure you won't if there's enough money to be made...
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They won't do it.
They will however buy a 90% stake in another company that will be pure AI.
More importantly, DC (and Marvel) is no longer the largest company in comics. That belongs to IDW Publishing (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Star Trek, Sonic the Hedgehog, Locke & Key and Godzilla)
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Did IDW Publishing grow or did the other suck long enough to lose relevance?
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Did IDW Publishing grow or did the other suck long enough to lose relevance?
Por qué no los dos?
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Marvel and DC focus their efforts on larger revenue streams, choosing to leave the smaller margin stuff like actual comic book publishing to other companies.
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I don't know anything about comics, but according to Wikipedia (IDW [wikipedia.org]):
It was founded in 1999 as the publishing division of Idea and Design Works, LLC (IDW) and is recognized as the fifth-largest comic book publisher in the United States, behind Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, and Image Comics
Wikipedia also links to IDW Publishing States They Will Definitely Be Around For Another Year [bleedingcool.com]
So, it doesn't seem that rosy?
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Today's headline: "Not now, not ever!"
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Tomorrow's headline: "Now with AI!"
For now (Score:5, Informative)
Wizards of the Coast promised the same thing. Look at them now...
I don't think they actually will either (Score:1)
It's become painfully obvious that the courts are not going to side with copyright holders with regards to generative AI.
Several court rulings have already ruled that it's all fair use because of reasons. The argument is usually that the tokens stored in the database are sufficiently different than the actual content.
Regardless of how yo
Wait until its your job shill (Score:2)
Anonymous shilling is gonna be one of the industries hardest hit.
But in any case the market is going to be absolutely saturated with AI slop. Some of it will even be good but most will suck ass. I think there will be a market for strong not-ai brands and established industry players would be smart to try and settle into those positions before giving up and relegating themselves to being the one of billion content farms out there,
Of course if Radio Shack willingly turned themselves into yet another phone r
Even when a (Score:2)
...cheap, nimble, trendy AI-savvy upstart begins eating your lunch?
About half the population are not AI-haters, and I suspect the newer generation will just accept AI art as part of life.
(Fair? No. Reality, yes.)
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The statement
(blah blah blah low effort AI bullshit)
Get fucked with your robot daddy
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Aww a genetic fallacy
AIs don't have genetics, tool.
Try harder and argue the point instead of insulting the autistic man making it by implying he's AI
Any human who would write that tripe deserves to be considered a bot.
"Not now, not ever" (Score:2)
This will age like milk... (Score:3)
Backtracking in 3.. 2.. 1..
Given the Anthropic lawsuit (Score:2)
They'd have trouble defending. And all past comic authors and artists would sue. Meanwhile, the "storylines" would go off the rails, and buyers would drop it for others.
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https://www.authorsalliance.or... [authorsalliance.org]
Um, no (Score:2)
"People have an instinctive reaction to what feels authentic. We recoil from what feels fake. That's why human creativity matters," said Lee. "AI doesn't dream. It doesn't feel. It doesn't make art. It aggregates it."
Sorry but that's not the case. If you tell people it's AI, or assure them it's not, then suddenly their perception of it is different. It's not that the piece has changed at all - their perception of it has changed.
Due to something that is extraneous to the piece itself.
Sorry but people are goi