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I was next to (one of) the AI slop booths at DragonCon and all I got was this lousy t-shirt. So, as you may or may not know, there was a booth selling AI slop images printed on acrylic panels at DragonCon. They were in booth a-10. I was in a-11. Here’s what happened from my perspective.

Thursday during load-in, the folks in charge of that space (a young woman, a young man, an older lady, and an older man) showed up and were clearly displeased with the layout of the area. As they set up their propanel walls, they began to have issues because their equipment was the wrong size.

Messy paintings of pop culture characters with abstract brushstrokes and Grafitti style text. Not my thing, but that’s how art works: there’s something for every one. This is important later.

Friday, we get in and the younger woman, Oriana (who’s name was on the booth) and the older man are nowhere to be seen, but the young man and older woman who helped set up were there. But there was different stuff in the booth.

The paintings were still there, but now so were new images of various anime characters & comic characters, monopoly man and snoopy, all bloomy and blurry with weird details and various numbers of fingers. I immediately clocked it as AI, but was too busy Friday to get away from my table