Christopher Bretz
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Illustrator | Art director 🎨 🎮 🎬 Former Secret Level, @Sega of America, and @Cisco AD. Proud papa. Daydreamer. No NFT or AI.
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Hi! I'm Chris, an art director and illustrator. My career covers game development, corporate marketing, freelance illustration, and consulting. Building teams and businesses. 🎨 No AI.
#portfolioday
If you are interested in working with me, get in touch!
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All the Generative AI data filling up the internet and search engines needs to be called what it is, Data Pollution.
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With AI images, I now think to myself, if someone couldn’t be bothered to draw it, why should I be bothered to look at it?
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Doug Henderson (1949- )
When I first saw his paleoart drawings back in the early 90s my jaw literally dropped.
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Can someone tell me what the positive use case is for this?
Google just unveiled VLOGGER, a tool that generates lifelike talking videos with a single photo
Now, anybody can become a YouTuber.
Here's what you need to know:
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I was watching Picard (awesome!) and always wondering what Data looks like under his skin, so did this. I based it upon old TNG episodes where they open his various hatches, and a shot in First Contact, trying to keep the TNG aesthetic.
#startrek
#illustration
#android
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AI guy: You are trying to take my toy away! Just adapt or get left behind!
Artists: Your toy only works when you feed it our work, it can't draw shit without it. You knew it would take a long time to get consensual art in the volume you needed, so you just took it anyway. So ya
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This is a horrible future we are in. We can’t allow this tech to warp our society like this.
AI was used to steal this woman’s likeness to create a deepfake of her promoting erectile dysfunction pills. 🙃 Regulate this shit into the ground.
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When they say “generative AI learns like us” it shows how, in the attempt to elevate and anthropomorphize machines to something more, it instead exposes how little respect and how crudely they conceive of human ability.
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Here is my first test image using Nightshade!
I had it set to the defaults and it took ~12 minutes - about 1/3 of the 30min estimate. I will try higher render qualities next.
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When I see industry artists excited about AI and eager to adopt it, they usually are thinking it can help with one small aspect of their particular workflow, and that the other parts they love doing will be unaffected. Surprise, AI developers want to automate EVERYTHING.
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The first 25 years of the Internet were, on the whole, really great… Human knowledge at your fingertips and all that. But turns out for my kids, that was all just training data. The new Internet will mostly be fake images, fake text, fake facts... Hallucinations and no trust.
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There is a protest on
@ArtStationHQ
tonight. Beautiful.
Please join!
Artstation please listen to your community!
#artstation
#aiart
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It is quite the twist that real artists silently suffer imposter syndrome, while AI artists bark with Dunning-Kruger.
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A camera doesn't ingest all previous photos to make a new image.
Photoshop doesn't need any awareness of an artist's style to be a useful tool.
The creative process is not a time consuming labour which needs automation.
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When this is the prevalent attitude towards creator’s rights among the users of this technology, we clearly need legislation to help educate them as to why this is wrong.
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I think most Creatives have aged 10 years since ~2020 dealing with all the crypto/NFT/AI crap. I know I feel it.
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I believe all creatives need to resist unethical GenAI. Unregulated it is quite simply "anti-art", built on theft, and a threat to decades/centuries of growth of the commercial arts in society.
However I have do have concerns about our ability to win.
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The great darkening of the web. No new art.
Of the 80%, how many would post using Nightshade knowing it would definitely hurt training models? (I think i know the answer)
If its guaranteed that any image you posted on social media is going to be used in AI training, would you still post?
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Oh FFS
I tried it too and Google showed me this AI image instead of actual Edward Hopper. The deluge of AI art is going to make search engines pretty useless unless they can properly filter/see it.
If you don't think visual AI is a problem, this is what comes up when you
@Google
Edward Hopper.
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So the plan is:
1 Widespread adoption of AI leads to
2 Increased corporate profits, through
3 Increased productivity, by way of
4 Massive job losses and downsizing
5 Thereby destroying the consumer base and
6 Bankrupting said corporations, unless...
7 UBI provided by the gov't
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Someone sent me some AI images that they found that use my name in the prompt. I hadn’t been looking for those in a while, but still gives me a violated feeling. Like someone’s been in your house.
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Sadly there is no going back to the pre-gAI, 100% human web, and that is a huge loss. Like setting up 100 outhouses next to your water supply and giving everybody suppositories.
RIP World Wide Web 1990-2023.
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My last tweet with Disney in it vanished, so I will try again.
Disney please replace the AI generated credits in Secret Invasion!
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With the news about Nightshade for images, I wonder if you can encode music and voice in some way to "poison the well" for AI audio training?
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If the majority of actors, writers, artists, etc are against the use of their work in your tech and in fact consider it outright theft, how do you ignore their concerns and tell them straight faced they're wrong? The tech is literally built upon fruits of their labour.
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Disney’s whole existence can be credited to the creative work of human artists, but then they dump on them and all other artists by using the unethical plagiarism tool called generative AI.
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A new paper discussing replication of training data in image diffusion AIs
#aiart
"the system sometimes exhibits reconstructive memory, in which recalled objects are semantically equivalent to their source object without being pixel-wise identical"
This full paper is excellent and confirms exactly what I suspected.
"We also identify cases where diffusion models, including the popular Stable Diffusion model, blatantly copy from their training data."
Full paper:
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Or this? I hope the new laws forbid this kind abuse of individuals. Imagine your daughter or son dealing with this in high school. Or the upcoming elections.. jesus tech bros... use your big brains to think beyond a $$
These AI deepfakes will blow your mind. They are now so realistic that it's impossible to tell they're AI-generated.
Examples of Mark Zuckerberg, Marc Andreessen, Obama in 🧵 below.
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What is with various sites coming out in the last 6 hrs trying to rationalize/defend the AI use in Secret Invasion?? Coordinated?
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At this point you have to assume everything you ever post online will be copied, bought, sold, stolen, imitated, appropriated, algorithmically evaluated, judged, broadcast, translated, trained upon, by whomever thinks they can make a buck off it. ‘Share’ is a loaded term now.
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Making games for the N64 was expensive! As artists we had high end PCs but also needed SGI Indys with dev boards to run the game. Later when Maya was introduced, we also needed SGI O2 workstations as well. In total a full 1997 artist setup could be over $40-50k CAD
#gamedev
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Today I took down my website devoted to sharing my family history research. I had run it openly for 14 years and it was used by other researchers too, but I now realize all of the content would be open to AI training, photos and all. I think I will turn it into a book instead.
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You know, we should do more than Glaze our artwork, we should Glaze everything we can - personal photos, public domain images, IG posts. Set up entire Pinterest and Artstation accounts where they can be scraped and fed into AIs to sabotage them.
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I've been digging into all the various new Star Trek episodes this week! So much Trek! This is a personal concept for a reimagined Gorn I did a few years ago.
#startrek
#conceptart
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Been working on this one last fun thing for Data. I did up this 2D animation with some of the various Data heads I did in After Effects, trying to keep the same spirit as the original TNG LCARS by Mike Okuda. Running level 3 diagnostics.
#startrek
#tng
#aftereffects
#illustration
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🤦♂️what is wrong with these people
The unbridled magical thinking on display by AI enthusiasts is really frightening
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More Data data! I continued working on more "under the skin" versions of Commander Data, including some of the open hatches shown in TNG (the Westworld cutaway is just for fun). And an infrared version.
#startrek
#illustration
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I bet retraining your AI ethically is cheaper than paying out for all copyrighted material and infringements...
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Also GenAI was not developed by or for artists benefit to improve their work. That market $$ is much too small. It was made for the mass market by people who are not thinking about the downstream effects of what they are making. And who see creative work as output and content.
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Thanks to
@TheGlazeProject
my dream is coming true!
#Nightshade
I mean, what I really want is a way to encode images invisibly that drives AI models insane if they dare to look at them.
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The future they are blindly driving to has no roles for modellers, or rigging, or texturing, or concept art, or animation, or vfx, or tech art, or any traditional art jobs of the last few decades.
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GameDev Stories
#9
In early 97 the pressure was on to finish Tetrisphere (N64). It was supposed to be a launch title and we had missed it. The studio head set up tents in the office and stocked the kitchen with whatever we needed to encourage us to work
#gamedev
#h2oentertainment
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I have an old matchbook from the Nintendo party at E3 1998. Its a little rough, but kind of cool as a collectible. I remember the B52s played.
#nintendo
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Agree, and the news is that last place I want AI... how are we supposed to know what is real anymore?
We are chronically underprepared for the wave of job displacement that is going to come from generative AI.
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I saw some kid comment on one of these "gleefully" proclaiming the end of believing what you see.
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@forestillusion
@shanebattye
If I remember correctly, the earlier model's joystick cap was detachable?
#gamedev
#n64
#nintendo
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It’s not just a new tool to make one part of your process easier, like a new filter or plug-in. GenAI is trying to redefine the creative process and very roles of creative professional in the industry today.
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1: the scale of the crime is so very large is ceases to look like a crime to some
2: the tech will soon be seen as essential to national security and economic growth. the argument will be that other nations without regulation will be allowed to leap ahead.
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AIs are trained on existing datasets, so they will end up perpetuating the styles and ideas found in those datasets. This could lead to a lack of diversity and innovation in art. It would be ironic that such a technological advancement leads to a great stagnation.
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Wow, this guy..
AI proponent doesn't seem to understand how Nightshade works on training data and is a troll to boot.
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Two hopeful developments in the battle against AI images. Both WoTC and the NC Museum of Natural Sciences were called out by artists for using them (unknowingly), and both apologized and committed to banning their use moving forward.
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Happy birthday to Brom (1965- )! Brom's unique and haunting style has been featured in many books and video games.
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@neilturkewitz
@SenBlumenthal
@Knibbs
Great to see! Let’s hope they feel the same for other forms of media.
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On the medium Quality setting it took ~30min. Sharing it for comparison. Will max out the settings next.
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@ailantd
You can mainly see artifacts in the flat blue sky, otherwise the effect looks like jpg compression or added noise. I think the effect is quite subtle though, and not distracting. And worth it!
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As I see it, the push for ethical AI addresses two issues. First is one of consent. Most creatives I know would never contribute their work willingly to training genAI. They consider it theft, hence the need for ethical creation of these tools. /3
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AI is simply filling it up with imagined images and text which is creating a new reality. I hope books and libraries see a resurgence.
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Here is a cropped comparison of the original (left) and the Medium quality- default intensity Nightshaded version (right).
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Data: (calmly) Geordie, I appreciate your concern for my relationship with Spot. However, feline recognition is primarily based on scent and sound, rather than visual appearance. While my appearance may be altered during this process, my voice and scent will remain the same.
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And where is the gov't supposed to get the money for UBI? With the tax base it unemployed it would have to tax the corps. Or is there more magic thinking here?
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Happy Portfolio Day!
I make video games and have worked in marketing and now do freelance illustration, art direction, and concepts.
#PortfolioDay
✏️
🎨
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But a 2nd benefit is that genAI output is only as good as it’s inputs, and since most artists would not willingly contribute to it, this would severely handicap most of these model’s quality. They know this and so will fight tooth and nail for the right to use our work.
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The whole thing reads as a giant societal wealth transfer.
Nevermind the $trillions required to achieve this new economy in water and power use that will have tax dollars attached to it.
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Geordie: (looking concerned) Data, I know this is important for your development and all, but I can't help but worry about something. What if Spot doesn't recognize you with your skull exposed like this?
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If its guaranteed that any image you posted on social media is going to be used in AI training, would you still post?
Sure
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The "magic" of current gAI being intelligent is an illusion brought on by our own perceptions.
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Not to mention millions of creatives are displaced - artists, musicians, actors, etc. Entire industries that took decades of work and talent and craft.
I honestly can not believe we as a people would place value in AI over humanity. But I know we all dont think that way...
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Albert Whitlock (1915-1999)
Some of his great matte paintings from Star Trek TOS
I'm really not a fan of the CGI used in remastered versions of the series. It's an insult to all the great work done by people like Al. But that's a whole other thread...
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I think visually the defaults the team chose look good. A nice balance.
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I am being honest when I say explain to me how this leads to the utopia that AI proponents talk about.
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Because most of what I have read is some version of this
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An AI guy protecting his prompts is like trying to lay claim to the way you use Google image search.
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I'll start this as a thread for Nintendo items and memorabilia I've kept that might be cool to share.
This is an N64 launch pamphlet from 1996. (Tetrisphere is shown, but we didn't have a logo yet.)
#nintendo
#n64
#1990s
#tetrisphere
#nostalgia
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@JoeDeertayVG
I would describe it as the law is unsettled here. There are multiple class actions against AI companies working their way thru the system to establish law, and legislation in process in many countries.
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This version I did at the highest settings and it took quite a bit longer to encode... 12 hours, but i think i might have lost time to my screensaver.
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Protect your art and style against generative AI training by subtly filtering your images using Nightshade and Glaze.
Thank you to Ben Zhao and his team
@theglazeproject
at the University of Chicago for these wonderful tools!
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@MongeMkt
I'm sorry, but your first point is only possible by the exploitation of other peoples work used to train the AI. The other 2 points are magical thinking, imbuing AI with capabilities it doesn't have.
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I picked up this great book at Nasa in Houston in the mid 90s. It by Ron Miller and is an amazing encyclopedic survey of all of the spaceships created for literature, film and the real world over the years.
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I finished a new 80m sea level rise map of Antarctica! Last year NASA released a new dataset of bedrock elevations through their MEaSUREs program and so I've been able generate a highly detailed map of what it would look like without ice (+80m of water).
#sealevelrise
#antarctica
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From what I read, the financial/investor community knows that AI is probably in a DotCom size valuation bubble right now, and that there will be a crash, perhaps this year. Anyone saying otherwise is selling something.
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Imagine genAI replaces all commercial art. Most people will think the results are "good enough" as long as the $$ flows, but the absence of human intention in everything will surely lessen us. Regurgitating back the same ideas, like a huge creative echo chamber
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Happy birthday
@PedroPascal1
, I hope you have a great one! I wanted to share my Mando painting from the first season and say looking forward to the Last of Us!
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Bipartisan U.S. bill would end Section 230 immunity for generative AI
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Another thought I had. His artificial skin would definitely be more than just a covering. All of the myomer muscles to move his mouth and give his face expression would be contained in it, along with touch sensors, electronics, etc.
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