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DragonCon ejects AI ‘artist’, to approval of all (pivot-to-ai.com)
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other cons follow suit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ttv8T6aRjNQ&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250903-dragoncon-ejects-ai-artist-to-approval-of-all - podcast

time: 6 min 58 sec

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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 17 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

this is apparently the same Oriana Gerez five years ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJGZnCy7Muw

it was 2020 and she was already "AI is inevitable"

from particle physics to art scams

(her sound is bad enough I'm not bothering to listen myself and youtube's transcriber choked on it, but it retains curiosity value)