On being listed in the court document of artists whose work was used to train Midjourney with 4,000 of my closest friends and Willem De Kooning (1/3)
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Cat and Girl is a cartoon about how we are all going to die some day that has been running online ad-free since 1999. Hi, my name is Dorothy, and I'm the sucker who makes it.
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On being listed in the court document of artists whose work was used to train Midjourney with 4,000 of my closest friends and Willem De Kooning (1/3) |
@catandgirl Not much to say other than this is pretty rough. It's coming from all sides, too, with art, sound, writing, and computer code being unaccountably sucked up by the usual suspects.
@catandgirl I’ve been on the Internet since 1995 and I’ve never heard of you before. How sad is that? But now I found you on Mastodon and can follow you on RSS, which is all I wanted in the 90s before all of this advertising and algorithm driven nonsense that clearly failed to connect me to one of the best things on the Internet.
words is left out, though it appears on the web page and is described here because the effect is so cool.) Red line art is used to indicate the present, and blue line art indicates the past. This is noted here as Red: or Blue:
1. "On being listed in the court document of artists whose work was used to train Midjourney with 4,000 of my closest friends and Willem de Kooning"
2. "I didn't expect to be there. I'm small time." Red: A small self-portrait of the artist in sweats and socks.
3. "In 1999 I drew two cartoon characters." Blue: an anthropomorphic cat in a sweater and glasses, with his hands in his trouser pockets. He is smoking a pipe and is labeled "Cat." Beside him is a child with hair parted in the middle that curls up at each shoulder, wearing a blouse, pleated skirt, stockings and shoes, labeled "Girl."
4. "I made them a webpage and some people liked it." Blue: the artist sits at a keyboard in front of a CRT monitor. She is surrounded by many floating HTML tags.
words is left out, though it appears on the web page and is described here because the effect is so cool.) Red line art is used to indicate the present, and blue line art indicates the past. This is noted here as Red: or Blue:
1. "On being listed in the court document of artists whose work was used to train Midjourney with 4,000 of my closest friends and Willem de Kooning"
2. "I didn't expect to be there. I'm small time." Red: A small self-portrait of the artist in sweats and socks.
3. "In 1999 I drew...