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Screenshot of a comic by Dorothy Gambrell Slide 1 reads "On being listed in the court document of artists whose work was used to train midjourney with 4,000 of my closest friends." Slide 2: "I didn't expect to be there. I'm small time" Slide 3: "In 1999 I drew two cartoon characters, cat and girl." Slide 4: "I made them a webpage and some people liked it." Slide 5: "For about ten years I scraped together a meager living making work I thought was worthwhile in that way that only young people think their work is worthwhile." Slide 6: "Now I have a job." Someone asks Dorothy, "Do you still make cat and girl," and she replies "yes, every week." Slide 7: "if you can reach any kind of financial equilibrium, it's tempting to look back on your time with no money as a funny story" Slide 8: "I need it to be a funny story" Slide 9: "Because it was hard at times, so hard."

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Screenshot of a comic by Dorothy Gambrell Slide 1 reads "On being listed in the court document of artists whose work was used to train midjourney with 4,000 of my closest friends." Slide 2: "I didn't expect to be there. I'm small time" Slide 3: "In 1999 I drew two cartoon characters, cat and girl." Slide 4: "I made them a webpage and some people liked it." Slide 5: "For about ten years I scraped together a meager living making work I thought was worthwhile in that way that only young people think their work is worthwhile." Slide 6: "Now I have a job." Someone asks Dorothy, "Do you still make cat and girl," and she replies "yes, every week." Slide 7: "if you can reach any kind of financial equilibrium, it's tempting to look back on your time with no money as a funny story" Slide 8: "I need it to be a funny story" Slide 9: "Because it was hard at times, so hard."
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Dorothy Gambrell 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

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