Flowers for the Messenger God

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Can you draw hermes and crocus under an olive tree?

Hmmmm ngl I think olive trees are more of an OdyPen thing, but Hermes and Crocus do have a weeping willow. I sent Athena over to check on them but when she came back...

... Yeah... And she kept muttering something like "need to wash my eyes out with vinegar" and "what happens under the willow tree stays under the willow tree."

So a friend did some googling of my webcomic and the AI overviews knew a lot more than they should. Like stuff they would only know if they were able to directly access the images, meaning somewhere in the swampy database of scraped art lies my own. Also:

Yeah, AI, like you'd know ANYTHING about personal and handmade art.

Stop scraping stuff people never gave you permission to scrape and get your GRUBBY CLANKER EYEBALLS off my work.

To add insult to injury the today I saw an AI generated piece of Hermes on Pinterest that looked suspiciously like MY DESIGN in MY ART STYLE. I reported and it got removed, but

WHAT THE FUCK. I'M A TINY ARTIST. LIKE I BARELY EXIST ONLINE.

WHY THE FUCK IS AI SCRAPING MY WORK!?

WHY THE FUCK ARE PEOPLE SHOVING MY ART (which I know is far from professional, "early-indie-webcomic style" even, but is something that I work very hard on) INTO CHATGPT!?

WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE!?

FUCK.

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*inhale*

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I considered accountlocking my writing but id rather let the bots feed off my work than bar half my readership from engaging with it. If it helps, I assume noone that knew your comic had malicious intent, Webtoon overall just got scraped. I hope that karmic justice will make non source texts about greek mythology being scraped dilute the data sample enough to start spitting out shitty headcanons when people try to get greek myth info on ai chatbots and make them useless

Anyways please have my spiritual support over the psychic mutual connection

Yeah I think the AI overview thing was scraping WEBTOON as a whole (wonderful, another win for small artists) but the Pinterest image thing almost certainly had to have been hand fed to an AI image generator :((

"I swear my art has improved since then!" I scream as they drag me into the white padded room.

So here’s what you have to do if you want to have perfect skin while keeping that alpha grindset:

Wash your horses first even if you are caked in blood and dirt

Wash your mighty arms

Don’t use Perfume, rub yourself with manly olive oil only

Don’t do make up, don’t even look into a mirror, you already have a chiseled jaw and flashing eyes

Instead run 120 laps around a racetrack to give your face a natural blush

Comb your hair with a golden comb