When online commenters detect my art as AI
When online commenters 'detect' my art as AI Published on 05 august 2026 Here is a collection of screenshots (obfuscated) of dozens and dozens of online comments from many platforms (Reddit, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook) containing accusations or confusion that my artworks and comics are AI-generated. Despite creating every piece by hand, despite sharing timelapses, the comments keep coming, and they're getting stronger. Making this collection was the source of frustration inspiration for my weekly comic episode 64, Authenticity Problem.
- ▪When online commenters 'detect' my art as AI Published on 05 august 2026 Here is a collection of screenshots (obfuscated) of dozens and dozens of online comments from many platforms (Reddit, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook) containing accusati
- ▪Despite creating every piece by hand, despite sharing timelapses, the comments keep coming, and they're getting stronger.
- ▪Making this collection was the source of frustration inspiration for my weekly comic episode 64, Authenticity Problem.
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| Original publisher | David Revoy |
| Canonical URL | https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1164/when-online-commenters-detect-my-art-as-ai |
| Publication time | Wed, 05 Aug 2026 20:58:52 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-08-05T21:10:47.403Z |
| Last seen | 2026-08-05T21:10:47.403Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
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| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
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| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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When online commenters 'detect' my art as AI Published on 05 august 2026 Here is a collection of screenshots (obfuscated) of dozens and dozens of online comments from many platforms (Reddit, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook) containing accusations or confusion that my artworks and comics are AI-generated. Despite creating every piece by hand, despite sharing timelapses, the comments keep coming, and they're getting stronger. Making this collection was the source of frustration inspiration for my weekly comic episode 64, Authenticity Problem. I hope it gives you a sense of what it feels like and how problematic it is for artists like me in 2026 who are "prime" sources for AI image generation training data, with over 20 years of my art online trained without my consent...
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