Small Press Vs. AI – Caption’s Amy Letts on the Need to Fight Back Against Generative AI Ahead of the Festival’s Panel in August

Ahead of the upcoming Small Press Vs. AI panel at Caption the festival’s Event Manager Amy Letts has written the following piece on the aims of the panel and the issues it looks to address. For more on Caption visit the site here. And don’t forget you can read Broken Frontier’s own zero tolerance to Gen AI policy here and read our resource list of comics on the subject here. Caption Comics Festival nails their colours to the mast – Down with Gen-AI! Poster by Lucia/KitsuneArt Caption Comics Festival is running a “Small Press Versus AI” Panel on Sunday the 9th of August to discuss the impact of generative AI on creatives, and help them to protect their work. The panel is comprised of Pete Trainor, Hannah Berry, Karrie Fransman and KitsuneArt, with Amy Letts chairing. Amy Letts, event manager of Caption Comics Festival, isn’t shy about sharing her point-of-view: Affected personally “250 of my artworks, that I know of, have been used to train generative-AI. These were scraped off my own website where I have clear copyright notices. I wasn’t asked or compensated. Art is a personal and vulnerable process. I feel absolutely violated.” Lost and confused, Amy’s reaction was to go analogue....