I do love Larian and have (had?) no problem with Swen and I appreciate Jason bringing up how bad AI is and indeed "so why use it". I think that we also need to call a spade a spade and remind CEOs *publicly* that genAI is trained on stolen content from thousands of unwilling artists.
If I had known the two paragraphs about genAI in my article today would be so controversial, I would have expanded them a bit! Here's a rough transcript of the relevant portion of my interview with Swen Vincke, so everyone has all the context. (Full article here: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...)
This #artfight is very special cos it's for my hubby @gaticomagico.bsky.social !!! His unicorn folk Poppy doing one of his signature wildfire druid spells!
grumpy, blushy unicornfolk druid Poppy for @gaticomagico.bsky.social, attack #9 • #MersArt #artfight #artfight2025 •
ArtFight attack for @gaticomagico.bsky.social !! Absolutely love this lad and his design, I’ve missed drawing centaurs so much omg — #artfight #artfight2025 #teamfossils #dnd #centaur
birthday gift art I did for @iiitsplague.bsky.social. Two of his dnd boys playing with forest spirits! #dnd
I've always wanted a pic of Drake hugging Wyatt from behind and putting his hands in the pockets of his boyfriend's hoodie. I don't know how @gaticomagico.bsky.social knew, but he's magical, so I guess it makes sense! Thank you so much! 😍