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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://mastodon.themarkup.org/users/themarkup/statuses/112037857398076346">The Markup (themarkup@mastodon.themarkup.org)'s status on Monday, 04-Mar-2024 23:25:40 JST</a><a href="https://mastodon.themarkup.org/@themarkup" title="themarkup@mastodon.themarkup.org"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/112439-48-20230414022429.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="The Markup" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">The Markup</a></section><article><p>Dorothy Gambrell created the below <a href="https://mastodon.themarkup.org/tags/comic" rel="tag">#comic</a> about discovering her work was used to train <a href="https://mastodon.themarkup.org/tags/Midjourney" rel="tag">#Midjourney</a> <a href="https://mastodon.themarkup.org/tags/GenerativeAI" rel="tag">#GenerativeAI</a>.</p><p>We spoke to her about this comic—and the broken promises of the early web—in our most recent newsletter: <a href="https://themarkup.org/hello-world/2024/03/02/what-happens-when-your-art-is-used-to-train-ai" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://themarkup.org/hello-world/2024/03/02/what-happens-when-your-art-is-used-to-train-ai</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/2789341#notice-5528847">In conversation</a><time datetime="2024-03-04T23:25:40+09:00" title="Monday, 04-Mar-2024 23:25:40 JST">about 8 months ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://mastodon.themarkup.org/@themarkup/112037857398076346" rel="external" title="Sent from mastodon.themarkup.org via ActivityPub">mastodon.themarkup.org</a></span></span><a href="https://mastodon.themarkup.org/@themarkup/112037857398076346">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/2327223">Untitled attachment</a></label><br></li><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/2333580">Screenshot of a comic by Dorothy GambrellSlide 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."</a></label><br><a href="https://cdn.masto.host/mastodonthemarkuporg/media_attachments/files/112/037/801/749/076/918/original/b7984cecd52a574f.png" rel="external">https://cdn.masto.host/mastodonthemarkuporg/media_attachments/files/112/037/801/749/076/918/original/b7984cecd52a574f.png</a></li><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/2333581">Slide 10: "But I believed in the work, alright?" 
Slide 11: "And I believed I could do my best to distribute it ethically by making it free to read, free to copy or reprint to anyone not making a profit."
Slide 12: "By refusing to do unpaid work for anyone who was making a profit."
Slide 13: "There might have been a moment I could have gone big"
Slide 14: "But it didn't happen. So I'm still here. Small."
Slide 15: And 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."
Slide 16: "But I can't even get cartoons to most people for free, now."
Slide 17: "without doing unpaid work for the profit-making companies who own the most-used channels of communication."
Slide 18: "and now even that nominal opt-in option is gone. They just take it. Whatever they want."</a></label><br><a href="https://cdn.masto.host/mastodonthemarkuporg/media_attachments/files/112/037/802/882/338/534/original/ce5ca4fec5a384e1.png" rel="external">https://cdn.masto.host/mastodonthemarkuporg/media_attachments/files/112/037/802/882/338/534/original/ce5ca4fec5a384e1.png</a></li><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/2333582">Slide 19: "I'm small time"
Slide 20: "I've never wanted to promote myself. I've never wanted to argue with people on the internet. I've never wanted to sue anyone"
Slide 21: "I want to make my little thing and put it out in the world and hope that sometimes it means something to somebody else"
Slide 22: "Without exploiting anyone. and without being exploited"
The remaining three slides have no text and display a monster's mouth taking a bite and eating the comic's narrator.</a></label><br><a href="https://cdn.masto.host/mastodonthemarkuporg/media_attachments/files/112/037/803/879/197/892/original/d3791a6c04ab3ece.png" rel="external">https://cdn.masto.host/mastodonthemarkuporg/media_attachments/files/112/037/803/879/197/892/original/d3791a6c04ab3ece.png</a></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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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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