New TSR: Liam Wong

THE SOCIALIZED RECLUSE returns with my conversation with director, game designer, and photographer Liam Wong (TO:KY:OO and AFTER DARK): I’ve long been a fan of his work – and getting the chance to talk with him about art, work, games, and inspirations, was one of those “this is why I wanted to do this show in the first place” moments. You can check out the whole conversation here.

egomaniacal AI slime

Via Print Mag, a piece worth reading on the current Lensa phenomenon:

Lensa has been debunked as a platform that steals actual artwork from real artists in order to generate these AI portraits. Lensa is able to do this through a legal loophole that the slimy AI image generator called Stable Diffusion first deployed. Not to mention Lensa is charging its users (monthly subscriptions are $29.99 and the avatar tool costs an additional $3.99 for 50 images) to then *own* their uploaded images. Digging into the fine print of the Lensa User Agreement reveals that users are granting them “a perpetual, revocable, nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide, fully-paid, transferable, sub-licensable license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, translate, create derivative works from and transfer your User Content, without any additional compensation to you…”