Óscar Bartolomé is a tweeter with more than 14,000 followers who defines himself as an ‘AI artist, prompt engineer and SEO consultant’ and who, last Thursday, started a controversy on the social network user) from a ‘prompt’ of his, considering that he should be “cited as author”.
It seems that numerous users were offended by this approach from Bartolomé, who had previously gotten into discussions about whether AI plagiarizes non-AI artists: They did not understand that a defender of generative AIs now claimed the copyright of works… derived from a text string.
So the next tweet in the thread was dedicated to “all the illustrators and cartoonists who come here to insult me (…) I’m sorry for you, but AI is here to stay (…) the AI will trample you. Good luck fighting progress. You will need it”.
That tweet now includes a ‘Community Note’ that links to an article reminding us that images generated by AI lack copyright protection (it refers to the US… but the same thing happens in Spain). ), so you can’t claim authorship.
But Bartolomé did not give up, and continued the thread by publishing this last Saturday:
“I just watched an episode of One Piece and I wanted to represent what’s happening here with an AI-generated image, for the enjoyment of my fans.”
And this is where @Pandandwolf, also known as José B. Rebolledo, comes in, who, highlighting a fragment of the image generated by Bartolomé (which read a large ‘Wanted’), asked him to learn ” to color correctly or (…) to draw, to begin with”.
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“Not even in your dreams would you be able to make an illustration like this”, answered Bartholomew. That, which could be true for ordinary mortals, proved to be a poorly thought-out statement in this specific case, as was made clear with Rebolledo’s response:
“I can do more than that, I can encourage her: because I have already worked as an animator for ‘One Piece’moron”.
And in case there was any doubt, the statement was accompanied by a screenshot of the credits of one of the chapters of the series. Specifically, from number 1,066, issued on June 25 in Japan:
It was a historic episode, because it was the first time that a foreigner (a Briton) directed an episode of one of the most successful anime in the Japanese industry. But there was also foreigners among the entertainers, among them, Rebolledo, who when the episode in question premiered was working for the series ‘What If…?’ from Marvel Studios.
Rebolledo’s response It reached more than 29,000 retweets, 162,000 likes and 9 million impressions before the animator chose to delete it:
“I don’t like being the center of attention for being toxic on Twitter (…) Keep watching One Piece, made by humans for humans.”
