Leg/Pol Advocate, Concept Art Association. Working to protect human artists/creators from predatory extraction of their IP, which then is used as data fuel for unregulated genAI. My statements here are my own, and should not be attributed to anyone else.
Deana Igelsrud
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What the hell #SDCC - really??? Isn’t your mission to help uplift comics and artists to the general public? This is outrageous and shameful. Normalizing an industry that only exists because of theft from copyrighted works. BOOOOO! #ComicCon2026
THIS MONDAY (6/8) - STAND UP TO BIG TECH IN SACRAMENTO - BE THERE!!!
THIS MONDAY (6/8) 3pm (or when the legislature adjourns), Capitol Annex Swing Space, 1021 O Street - Rm. 2100, Sacramento, CA.
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There is a bill in California that would allow creators to look under the hood of AI training datasets to see if their work was being used, but it needs your support - please sign this petition, it’ll take you 2 minutes: tinyurl.com/4uxbp963 (video credit hitrecordjoe on IG) 1/
We have until 10am PST Monday TODAY (6/1) to get those final signatures in for the petition ... SHAKE THE TREES FOR SIGNATURES - LAST CALL! LET'S GET THIS!!!! #AB412 actionnetwork.org/petitions/le...
Open AI doesn't want to be transparent about what's in their AI training datasets - this bill would force them.
If that sounds good, we REALLY NEED YOUR HELP! Please sign this petition in support of the bill, it'll take you 2 minutes: tinyurl.com/4uxbp963 1/
"Faster, more efficient"
= cutting artists and animators
"3rd party video models w/ a proprietary model portfolio"
= we won't tell you what data we trained off of (likely stolen)
A bill in Cali would force AI transparency, but it needs YOUR help! Please sign this petition tinyurl.com/4uxbp963 1/
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The only way for this AI "competitor" to function is by taking a bunch of work off the internet without consent. A bill in California would force transparency in their dataset.
Want to help it pass? Please sign this petition in support, it'll take you 2 minutes: tinyurl.com/4uxbp963 1/
Deana Igelsrud
Deana Igelsrud
Deana Igelsrud
Zachary Berger
Zachary Berger
Zachary Berger
Every single day we don’t have transparency, the value of copyright loses ground and the harms inflicted to creative industries grow.
California has always been on the forefront of policies that can ...
Comic-con deciding to allow GenAi imagery in the art show —giving valuable space to GenAi users to show slop right NEXT to actual artists who worked their asses off to be there— is a disgrace!
A tone deaf decision that rewards and normalizes exploitative GenAi against artists in their own spaces!
Three AI animated series are heading to Prime Video streaming via Amazon MGM/AWS-backed GenAI Creators' Fund: 'Cupcake & Friends;' 'Love, Diana Music Hunters;' and 'Punky Duck' from Jorge Gutierrez.
Three AI animated series are heading to Prime Video streaming via Amazon MGM/AWS-backed GenAI Creators' Fund: 'Cupcake & Friends;' 'Love, Diana Music Hunters;' and 'Punky Duck' from Jorge Gutierrez.
2026 Comic-Con Art Show JULY 23 through JULY 26 The Comic-Con Art Show is open to the public—you do not need a badge to come in and enjoy or purchase artwork. However, everyone entering the Art Show i...
