Dorothy Gambrell (@catandgirl) created the below #comic about discovering her work was used to train #Midjourney #GenerativeAI.
We spoke to her about this comic—and the broken promises of the early web—in our most recent newsletter: https://themarkup.org/hello-world/2024/03/02/what-happens-when-your-art-is-used-to-train-ai
@themarkup "Maybe I think small time was the right path after all-in that way that only middle-aged people can think that small time was the right path after all."
43 yo here. Totally get it.
@themarkup she's here on masto: @catandgirl
@lutzray @catandgirl Ah thank you! Edited the post to tag :)
@themarkup oof the interview hits hard. Hard!
"Because it’s eating us! It’s taking what we’ve made – all of us, what we have left, this diminished digital Library of Alexandria – subtracting the intentionality that made it human and using it to make money" - I feel her.