Watermarks Won't Settle It. Provenance Might Help.
Invisible watermarks on AI content are easy to strip and easy to skip. Documenting where authentic content came from is a quieter, more promising idea.
by Dev Raman
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The Daily Prompt: Ask for Ten Terrible Ideas Before You Ask for a Good One
Creative block usually means you're guarding the first idea too closely. Today's prompt makes the model go wide, bad and weird, so you can end up somewhere good.
by Jonah Kim
Six Kinds of AI Image Tools, Reviewed by a Working Illustrator
Text-to-image is only one kind. From sketch-to-image to vector generators, here's which categories deserve a place in a real illustration workflow and which are toys.
by Priya Sethi
Bro Talks: Ottoline Varga Draws Every Line and Lets the Machine Make the Rain
The illustrator and composer draws every album page by hand and builds her ambient tracks with a little help from generative tools. A talk about taste, credit and why 'unfinished' is a feature.
by Theo Brooks
The Rise of the “Made by a Human” Label
Small makers are adding a new promise next to “handmade.” Without a shared definition, it risks going the way of “natural.”
by Theo Brooks
Who Owns a Voice? The Messy Ethics of Synthetic Sound-Alikes
A narrator hears himself reading a book he never recorded. Voice cloning has legitimate uses and real victims. A framework for consent, credit, compensation and control.
by Priya Sethi
The Credits Are Getting Longer: Who Gets Named When a Machine Helped Make It?
Films have end credits, albums have liner notes, books have acknowledgments. Generative tools are pushing every creative field to rethink what 'made by' means, and some artists are writing new rules.
by Priya Sethi
What Happens to a Hobby When the Hard Part Becomes Optional
Generative tools offer a side door around the hardest part of painting, music and craft. Many hobbyists are discovering the hard part was the point.
by Priya Sethi
Taste Is Not a Prompt: Why the Generative Era Rewards People Who Notice
When anyone can make a thousand images in an afternoon, the scarce skill is choosing one. An argument for training your eye before you train a model.
by Priya Sethi