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Glendon Mellow
@FlyingTrilobite
Illustrator, Writer, Community-builder, Marketing Manager, Cyclist, B.F.A Hon. 🚲 “It is the unknown around the corner that turns my wheels.” –Heinz Stücke
Oct 2, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Hey #AIart #Midjourney #stablediffusion #DALLE fans:

✨Artists have done the reading✨
We’ve spent our careers trying new tech and thinking about copyright.

Stop acting like our criticism of word-prompt AI image platforms is uninformed, and start listening. The past few days I’ve seen AI tech bros claim artists and ethicists with criticisms of word-prompt AI image platforms are:
-uneducated
-emotionally vomiting
-Luddites
-gatekeeping
-fearful and fearmongering
-using false techno moralism
-spreading misinformation
Sep 29, 2022 • 13 tweets • 5 min read
For many artists, we're not scared of new tools and tech. The dilemma here is that billions of our images have been added to datasets to train these word-prompt AI image (#WPAII) platforms without our knowledge or consent.

Artists' labour has been put to use unethically. Would I enjoy loading up my portfolio into an exclusive dataset to create some images based off my own work? Sounds fun.

But what DALL-E, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, etc have done --wherever the legality lands-- is rob artists of agency and hand it to commercial interests.
Aug 30, 2022 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
So even though this tool is only searching a fraction of the artwork #StableDiffusion was trained on, and I'm small-time, I was still able to find it has my "Darwin Took Steps" painting in the database.
#AIart #artcred #sciart Image Interestingly, it's scraped from @redbubble.
I removed this painting from my RedBubble store a few years ago.
Sep 14, 2018 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
Ford: The people want cheese to be filled with nails!
People: ...what?! WHAT?!
Ford: I was elected by 2.3 million people to improve cheese it’s my mandate!
People: You didn’t campaign on that!
@FordNAti99990034 from Oakville, Russia: EAT TEH CHEESE TORONTO LEFTIES
#ONpoli Ford: it’s good cheese made right here in Ontario with healthy nickel 1/4” nails from our neighbouring province Sudbury
People: what, no —-YOU CANT HIDE NAILS IN CHEESE PEOPLE WILL DIE
Ford: Ontario nail-filled cheese will be only a buck at your local Beer Store.
#ONpoli