{"id":22446,"date":"2026-01-25T21:58:55","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T02:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/?p=22446"},"modified":"2026-01-25T21:59:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T02:59:23","slug":"comic-con-bans-ai-art-after-artist-pushback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/2026\/01\/comic-con-bans-ai-art-after-artist-pushback\/","title":{"rendered":"Comic-Con Bans AI Art After Artist Pushback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.404media.co\/comic-con-bans-ai-art-after-artist-pushback\/\">Comic-Con Bans AI Art After Artist Pushback<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>San Diego Comic-Con changed an AI art friendly policy following an artist-led backlash last week.<\/p>\n<p>For the past few years, Comic-Con has allowed some forms of AI-generated art at this art show at the convention. According to archived rules for the show, artists could display AI-generated material so long as it wasn\u2019t for sale, was marked as AI-produced, and credited the original artist whose style was used.<\/p>\n<p><strong>These rules have been in place since at least 2024, but anti-AI sentiment is growing in the artistic community and an artist-led backlash<\/strong> against Comic-Con\u2019s AI-friendly language led to the convention [&#8230;] changing the rules.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comic-Con Bans AI Art After Artist Pushback San Diego Comic-Con changed an AI art friendly policy following an artist-led backlash last week. For the past few years, Comic-Con has allowed some forms of AI-generated art at this art show at the convention. According to archived rules for the show, artists could display AI-generated material so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[231],"class_list":["post-22446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ai","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1G65p-5Q2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22446"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22448,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22446\/revisions\/22448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}