"The about-face is a welcome surprise. Until now, the massive convention - which has become a melting pot of all kinds of pop entertainment beyond the comic medium, with everyone ranging from game developers to movie studios using it as a platform to tease new content - has allowed some AI art to be displayed, so long as it was labeled as such and wasn't for sale, as well as other stipulations that have been in place since at least 2024, according to 404."
"Artists have been hostile towards AI pretty much from the moment it became popular, as the models were trained on troves of photos and artworks ripped from the internet without permission or compensation. But this past year saw a particularly notable surge in anti-AI sentiment, which now seems to have finally reached a boiling point in the Comic Con community."
"Comic-[C]on deciding to allow GenAI imagery in the art show - giving valuable space to GenAI users to show slop right NEXT to actual artists who worked their asses off to be there-is a disgrace!"
San Diego Comic-Con updated its Art Show rules to ban material created by Artificial Intelligence, either partially or wholly. The convention had previously permitted some AI-generated images if they were labeled and not for sale, along with other stipulations in place since at least 2024. The policy reversal followed rapid and intense backlash from artists and fans after the show initially allowed GenAI imagery. Professional artists expressed relief, citing that generative AI models were trained on unlicensed photos and artworks and that AI threatens creative labor. The new rule was posted less than a day after online criticism.
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