Ice 9 Kills landed themselves in some sizzling water over the weekend after they pushed a merch sale on their web site with some fairly shitty AI-generated imagery. The band clearly is not too fazed by the scenario both, as they’ve issued an announcement calling the incident a “horrific headline-making crime in opposition to Redditors” alongside the publication of extra AI slop.
It is at all times a superb look as an artist to primarily let different artists that you do not give a fuck about them and are prepared to maintain doing the factor that makes them indignant. Actual mature, guys. I suppose if somebody loaded up Ice 9 Kills‘ Spotify with pretend AI “music” it might be humorous too, proper?
“We’re vigorously investigating the disturbing claims {that a} current promotional picture was sloppily birthed by AI,” wrote Ice 9 Kills. “We solemnly pledge to unravel this horrific headline-making crime in opposition to Redditors. For now, get pleasure from our new promo picture, taken simply moments in the past.”
In case you’re prepared to examine why AI really sucks, Erin Reinhart had a fairly good piece about it in The Guardian lately. Otherwise you, as an individual with a purposeful mind and fundamental empathy, can acknowledge that AI “artwork” is constructed totally on the backs of artists who truly put the work into changing into an artist, and that AI “artwork” is pure theivery. Or the third choice is everybody can snicker it off and we are able to proceed our spiral into the depths of the enshittification of artwork.
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