Hey artists,
I’m a designer and artist based in the Bay Area, and I’ve been spiraling a bit lately thinking about the "Invisible Theft" happening to all of us.
We’ve all seen it: You spend years developing a specific brushstroke, a unique color palette, or a way of framing a story. Then, a generative AI model "scrapes" your portfolio, and suddenly, anyone can type in a prompt and get a "perfect" imitation of your style in 5 seconds—without your name ever being mentioned.
It feels like our "Energy" is being mined, but our "Identity" is being erased.
I’m currently working on a project to solve this. The goal is to move past simple watermarks and actually create a way for our work to carry an unerasable "DNA" that tells any LLM "This belongs to [Your Name]. Here are the rules for using it."
I’m running a very short, intentional survey to gather real data from artists so we can show these AI labs that we aren't just "data points"—we’re the Source.
If you have 2 minutes to help protect our collective authorship, please jump in here: https://forms.gle/63NuxmCwAYV9QpjC6
I’d also love to chat in the comments about how you’re protecting your work right now.