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e the book it s not really a part of it and can often differ from the actual contents see the filk there s a bimbo on the cover of my book on the artist side though it s all out war as my few readers will note dr mauser was originally posted on deviantart da which isn t exactly the best venue for written fiction but all things considered i did okay over there but i had a lot of artist friends and they feel threatened and in many ways they re right now artists feel threatened a lot photography was the first thing why paint a portrait when you can get one perfectly rendered at the push of a button some still insist that photography is not an art then along came cgi then photoshop then poser and daz each one of these was heralded as the great democratizer of art anybody would be able to get professional looking results easily only it wasn t so easy all of that was a lot of work to get results you could spend a fortune on 3d assets and spend a day rendering and ray tracing before noticing you had to adjust a character s finger position and do it all over again or you could just say fuck it that s good enough and upload that sucker which is why poser art is still an epithet because there was a minor flood of badly composed badly lit badly done in general art typically created to scratch some teen to twenty five year old s sexual fetish boob size slider goes to eleven and the first one to upload gets the attention from those who also wanted to see the same thing but were too lazy to tackle learning the tools themselves now i ve known a number of comic artists they make a lot of extra cash in the artist alleys at conventions doing one off sketches for fans but it can also be a grind when after the fifteenth rendition of the same another girthy fanboy plunks down some cash and utters those horrifying words i wanna nekkid wunnerwoman poser and daz saved those artists from that grind but unfortunately also saved them from all that money but at least there was a barrier to entry the tools are complex and the learning curve to get good results was steep poser artists would manage a production rate not too far above traditional artists and of lower objective quality so at least good artists were safe and nobody much cared about the folks who developed their own personal characters designed after sonic the hedgehog drawn on lined notebook paper scanned and uploaded as if deviantart was the infinitely large refrigerator door of a very indulgent mother with an endless supply of magnets the poser art was also somewhat repetitive recycling the same sets and assets in slightly different poses over and over well what are computers good for if not automating the difficult parts of a task enter ai art and now without all the tedious xyz positioning of every bone point and spending money on props because the razor is free but the blades cost you can whisper i wanna nekkid wunnerwoman and get fifty of them for free and even more in higher resolution for a small monthly fee now deviantart fresh off a wave of implementing a ton of new features added by the new owners meant to monetize the decades of art people had been putting on display on the site features ranging from selling adoptables and nft like ownership of images to protection plans from other sites creating nfts of your art to subscriptions and pay to view galleries and selling high resolution file downloads features requiring the payment for a premium membership and which netted deviantart a hefty royalty when used saw the dollar signs on the wall they jumped on the ai art bandwagon and figured they had 20 25 years worth of ip right there on the site to train their engine on and all they had to do was change the tou right under everyone s noses that lasted about a month even though the vast majority of artists on da were putting their work up for free just to share it and professional artists were using it as a sort of online portfolio if there s one unifying quality among da artists it s just how fast the torches and pitchforks come out when you say the two magic words art theft however deviantart tends to turn a deaf ear to any complaints sure a few people quit the site after a very unpopular user interface redesign and their system for reporting rules violations seemed to work better as a harassment tool than legitimate policing so when they started training their new ai you had to opt out each individual image you didn t want them to use for long time artists that would mean editing thousands of image metadata pages after a month or so with some particularly high profile defections they switched over to opt in and added a global checkbox for not using one s art for training i figured it was too late and that the training had already been completed by the time they did this but by this point the damage had been done thousands of artists quit the site even ones with a considerable investment in the online comics they had hosted there for example stjepan segic the creator of sunstone ravine fine print and death vigil as well as numerous comics for dc and other publishers he replaced the majority of his artwork with the image of a potato other pros were much less polite even the artists who stayed were really not happy with how this changed the character of the site da didn t care for one simple reason they had struck ai gold now you had every fanboy in the world signing up to get access to the ai and asking for things a lot more outré than mere nekkid wonnerwomans and the sheer volume most of these guys would just dump the ai output directly into their galleries with zero editing hell they wouldn t even retitle them from the random string of numbers assigned to the file or enter a description 90 of the time now there were a few artists i was watching who actually used ai as a tool only posted their results occasionally and put in the effort to retouch and edit and otherwise rework the art but guys like that are rare and of course these bulk ai users took advantage of every money making tool that da provided you could look at their galleries and it would be page after page of fuzzed out previews with an overlay exhorting you to subscribe for 5 10 a month to see what s really there nekkid wunnerwomans with extra large tits in bondage and the resulting flood of these useless previews would pretty much destroy the utility of deviantart s main page my advice to people was to change their bookmark to their notifications page so they only see the updates from the people they follow yes it hurts discoverability but there are better ways to find something you like yeah da is making money now i guess but they totally destroyed their community of artists their professional reputation as bad as it was to start with and drove off the main attraction of the site and replaced it with a tidal wave of ai generated slop and you can tell nobody cares because nobody comments but the traffic is there from the guys wanting their superheroine porn and da brags about artists making huge sales only it turns out that what s really happening is that someone with multiple accounts is churning da s internal currency points back and forth between the accounts the artists don t lose a percentage on points transactions was there a point to this digression yes what poorly handled ai has done to an art site the art site the site most connected with fandom is responsible for the seething level of animosity directed at ai art and that backlash can be seen everywhere many art sites are banning the use of ai newgrounds and pixiv come to mind and this is proving to be a popular move hating ai is the mood of the fandom and dragoncon recognizing this has reflected that in their policies with regard to their art show etc not sure how this affects showings of sf superhero movies with extensive digital effects but they tend to fall into the higher level of difficulty of pre ai digital art the single place they failed to update their policy were the eligibility rules for the dragon awards now the dragon awards are a literary award there isn t normally anything about art in it i m not sure when these cover art categories were added now if you scroll way back to the top of this article you ll note that book ebook publishing has a very different attitude towards art than the fan art population they see ai as a tool not a cheat and the cover artists who use it typically put in the photoshop hours to take out the obvious defects in composition anatomy and typesetting that prevail in ai art they are not like the guys on da flooding hundreds of defective images a day on to the site that s not good advertisement for their books the fans don t make that distinction thus more than a few see the attack on cedar s cover as legit even though the ban wasn t in place for the dragon awards that cedar s was the only cover thus attacked is another matter i haven t investigated the use of ai in any of the other nominees given the prevalence of ai or ai assisted cover art this can lead some to think this was a targeted hit there were any number of ways the dragon award committee could have handled this they apparently chose the worst possible way they ruled off the cuff with no consultation with the people affected on a rule that wasn t in their rules but in the con s general policies in response to a single complaint or a small number it s not clear but it wasn t a general outcry panicking over threatened backlash coming from someone outside the awards is abdicating one s authority as the awards administrator of course the best way but impossible without time travel would have been to make sure the award rules were in sync with the con rules at the beginning of the event the next best way is to own the mistake and address it for future iterations tell the complainer we are aware of this this is not a violation of the rules for this year s award we will update the rules for next year s award one or two whiners should not be allowed to boss the award committee around and certainly not invalidate the will of all those voters who nominated cedar s cover to begin with if the whiners will not be mollified by getting the rules changed for future award cycles that suggests they have other motivations than just the purity of the award hell they could also stand firm and say the use of ai in book covers is an integral part of the market now and we will not be banning it if you object to it let that be reflected in your ballot in any case the time to change the rules is either at the start of the contest or after the end it s unfair to the entrants and the voters to change the rules mid journey 1 comment just when you thought it was safe to go back to the hugos july 22 2024 july 22 2024 dr mauser so after assuring us that the hugos were the most honest trustworthy and up and up awards ever especially since they rejiggered the procedures specifically to detect and exclude slates statement from hugo administration subcommittee 22 july 2024 the glasgow 2024 hugo administration subcommittee led by hugo administrator nicholas whyte has today issued the following statement you can also watch a corresponding announcement video announced by nicholas whyte glasgow 2024 hugo administrator and wsfs division head statement in the course of tallying the votes on the final ballot for the 2024 hugo awards the glasgow 2024 hugo administration team detected some unusual data paragraph 6 2 of the wsfs constitution states that in all matters arising under this constitution only natural persons may introduce business nominate or vote except as specifically provided otherwise in this constitution no person may cast more than one vote on any issue or more than one ballot in any election a large number of votes in 2024 were cast by accounts which fail to meet the criteria of being natural persons with obvious fake names and or other disqualifying characteristics these included for instance a run of voters whose second names were identical except that the first letter was changed in alphabetical order and a run of voters whose names were translations of consecutive numbers many of these votes favoured one finalist in particular who we will call finalist a this pattern of data is startlingly and obviously different from the votes for any other finalist in 2024 and indeed for any finalist in any of the previous years where any member of the current hugo subcommittee has been involved with administering the hugo final ballot in addition to patterns observable in the data we received a confidential report that at least one person had sponsored the purchase of wsfs memberships by large numbers of individuals who were refunded the cost of membership after confirming that they had voted as the sponsor wished on the basis of the above evidence we have concluded that at least 377 votes have been cast fraudulently of a total of 3 813 final ballot votes that we received we have therefore disqualified those 377 votes from the final vote tally this decision is not one made lightly but we are duty bound as the hugo administrators to protect the hugo awards and to act against fraud we have no evidence that finalist a was at all aware of the fraudulent votes being cast for them let alone in any way responsible for the operation we are therefore not identifying them finalist a has not been disqualified from the 2024 hugo awards however they do not win in their category once the invalid votes have been disallowed no other votes have been disallowed the only votes disallowed are those which we have positively identified as not cast by natural persons we recognise that after the hugo voting in 2023 many in the community will understandably have questions about this unfortunately our ability to answer is very limited due to our responsibility to maintain the confidentiality of the ballot and data protection regulations there are proposals to institute a system of independent audit for hugo votes but at present such a system does not exist therefore the raw 2024 voting data cannot and will not be shared outside the glasgow 2024 hugo team however the full voting results nominating statistics and voting statistics will be published immediately after the hugo awards ceremony on august 11th 2024 as previously agreed in our transparency statement those will not include the 377 votes which have been disallowed but will include the other 3 436 votes we believe that it is important for transparency that we inform you now about what has happened we want to reassure 2024 hugo voters that the ballots cast were counted fairly most of all we want to assure the winners of this year s hugos that they have won fair and square without any arbitrary or unexplained exclusion of votes or nominees and without any possibility that their award had been gained through fraudulent means so they won t say who benefited from the cheating because it may have been someone else cheating on his or her behalf wink but i say t...