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Look at Christie's selling works made by GenAi, which relied on the stolen artworks of others to even function at capacity. Christies really leaning in to profiting off people’s exploitation. They should be shamed out of existence for this.

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New YouTube gouache demo is up. Full length version available on Patreon. youtu.be/coNs3Qe9mIw?si…

Severance studies!

Practice ✍️

More coverage of the backlash to the Christie’s AI art auction. I continue to think people in AI have hugely underestimated the anger among artists about the mass theft of their work to build commercial gen AI models.

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The richest 1% of people now own nearly 45% of all wealth, while 44% of humanity are living below the World Bank poverty line of $6.85 per day, per Oxfam.

Billionaire wealth surges to ‘unimaginable’ levels in 2024, per Oxfam. Read more: unusualwhales.com/news/the-riche…

America is finally being run like a business: a business acquired by private equity that’s being stripped for parts before being liquidated.

Among other things, I truly think the average person doesn’t appreciate how much the old fashioned ideas of business—make a good product and sell it—just rarely apply in the world of financialized business. But the narrative endures because it’s much nicer than the reality.

That’s what’s behind the efficiency/cost-cutting gospel preached by the billionaires. It’s not about how best to run a business as you and I think of it—reliable, useful, serving a purpose—it’s about how best to make a financial asset to serve their purposes.

Doodlin' on' train! #sketchbook

Leshen sketch from 2023 🌱

Use of color theory in interior ✨

I just received The Artist's Guide to Sketching from Anonymous via Throne. Thank you! throne.com/saurpuss #Wishlist #Throne