Artificial intelligence has directly impacted creative jobs. And it is evident: some governments have adopted it as part of their daily lives to avoid paying artists for institutional advertising, we have read apology letters written with ChatGPT, and even some video games are considering incorporating it into everyday life as something inevitable. However, the public has reacted.
Not over here
Since OpenAI, they believed it was going to be a piece of cake: A machine gives a drawing, a worker digitally touches up the mistakes, and voila. However, they didn’t count on the fact that the public is much smarter than they seem and can spot the AI from miles away. And very few people are pleased (and even stirring up excitement, for some reason) that it’s taking away jobs from truly creative people. Along the way, AI has affected Pokémon, Dungeons & Dragons, and even DC Comics.
Although the publisher has been strongly against art made by an AI, there are artists who have preferred to save themselves the work of thinking about a plan and drawing it by asking the machine of the moment. In May, AI influence was caught in a few panels that basically shamelessly plagiarized (the usual modus operandi, you know), yet in June it happened again.
The artist in this case was Francesco Mattina, who, among others, illustrated the 2017 series ‘Darth Vader: Dark Lord’ and who will now be known as “the one with the covers”. And the fact is that several of the alternative covers he has made for various DC comics (‘Superman’ and ‘The Brave and the Bold’, among others) had AI errors even in such mythical things as the Superman logo on his chest.
Mattina already had a long record of plagiarism, and DC has withdrawn not just these covers from future circulation, but they’ve also banned him from working with them again. Despite insisting that artificial intelligence is the future, it sometimes seems to be the present. Specifically, a present filled with layoffs and long faces.
