Sani Diego Comic Con verbietet stillschweigend KI-Kunst

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.

But, 404 Media reports, organizers have quietly updated their policy to ban AI-generated art. It appears they did so one day after a backlash following the publication of rules for this year’s event — rules that permitted some AI material.

Good. I’m so happy to see art festivals and events big and small banning vendors selling AI art. It will be harder and harder to enforce it as the years go on but better to do it now. Hopefully it means an indefinite ban for those vendors

Let the proponents have their own convention.

Quietly? Fuck that, do what DragonCon did and shame the FUCK out of AI „artists“ publicly!

This shouldn’t be a quiet update. They should shout it from the rooftops. SDCC is the biggest stage in the world for actual human creators and artists. Protecting that space is the only way to keep the „con“ in convention from standing for „con artist.“

It wasn’t very quiet… I thought they made quite the point over it.

Here’s the problem— how will they prove what is and isn’t AI art?

For the past year or so I’ve seen so many well established artists, whose portfolios predate AI art, get accused of being AI on social media platforms like Instagram.

People have started using AI accusations as a way to take down artists, either because they’re jealous of that artist or just because they like the feeling of power it gives them. It’s starting to become something like a witch hunt.

How can this be prevented?

Loudly ban it, no place for that shit there.

As they should, to be honest.