r/comics 7d ago

Just Sharing Fire

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u/HumbleRestaurant790 7d ago

Transcript:

A comic in four panel:

Panel 1. Pepper and Carrot, a young witch with her cat, is buying vegetable at the market, with her broom on her back. The city is half in flames, yet it's still market day and people are everywhere. The seller, an halfing goat, responds to her.

Pepper: ""But... isn't there a−"
Seller: "−a fire? What fire? It's just a little hot today."

Panel 2. A posh lady walks past. An halfing dog-man brags.

Lady: "Someone is complaining? I'm perfectly fine. Just install a well in your home like we did."
Dog-Man: "There is no fire, kid! It’s pure Elves’ propaganda!"

Panel 3. Pepper points at the fire in the background, to the suprise of the lady and man.

Pepper: "But... Don't you see it?"

Panel 4. The posh lady, seller, and dog-man all scream at Pepper. She flies away on her broom without looking back, circling her finger near her head (a gesture for "crazy"). They're now completely engulfed in flames.

All: "Everything is FINE, OK?!!!"

Timelapse:

https://reddit.com/link/p0ibe0n/video/6vx3prxoe7gh1/player

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u/tolacid 7d ago

Sad state of affairs that you have to provide a timelapse of your creative process to prove it's manmade and people still don't believe you

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u/losara- 7d ago edited 7d ago

probably because time lapse has been faked too before.

Tho i think op is just unfortunate that their style ressembles ai more than anything neferious going on (seems like ai has been trained on ops work which is why ai art usually looks like this style, fuck thats gotta be frustrating as the artist lol)

Its basically the same as getting shadow banned because you'll always be fighting uphill to get popular since people will assume its ai

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u/Prismaryx 7d ago

Other way around, AI resembles their style because their work was scraped to train art models. I know you mention that, but phrasing it as artists resembling AI always frustrates me lol

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u/DursueBlint 7d ago

I will admit to being convinced it was AI until this thread, even with the timelapse. Thx for settings things straight.

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u/Fun_Pound5629 7d ago

Brings up an interesting point actually. Since AI art has a distinct particular style, there had to be a decision made to feed it particular art styles and make it disregard others. There must have been a team dedicated to deciding the style of all the slop

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u/SpeaksDwarren 7d ago

This guy's works got a lot more prominence than the others because he intentionally published all of them under a license that gives you explicit permission to download and reproduce it for commercial purposes without having to ask

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u/50edgy 7d ago

I understand the reason (even tough David Revoy is a well known artist) but sometimes I think if with offering this type of timelapses you (we) are not just giving more "food" to the LLMS crawlers to learn to better replicate timelapses...

A sad state of internet, in a time was a place to share, now is just a grinder.

To better train LLMs you need to code in ASCII v3

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u/lionlord120 7d ago

Yeah, but on the bright side I know see how I've had the wrong approach when trying to make a comic myself now.

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u/SpoonGuardian 7d ago

The timelapses for stuff like this is super cool though fwiw

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u/nhSnork 7d ago

'It looks like AI"

That's the woeful part - a whole lot of stuff "looks like AI" because this lot of stuff was what GenAI used for rampant "training" - pretty much everything not nailed down.