Why Dave Rapoza left Magic: The Gathering (it’s AI)

Dave’s YouTube: @DaveRapoza Dave’s Patreon: Steve Lichman books: Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 01:50 Dave invents fan art 03:50 Dave invents livestreaming 08:00 Dave invents depressed skeletons 09:45 The Magic: The Gathering AI controversy 14:30 Dave stops working with Wizards of the Coast 19:25 AI and artist solidarity 21:40 Wizards confirms AI was used 24:25 Generated madness 26:30 Legal protections and lawsuits 28:43 Glaze & Nightshade 38:20 The Kim Jung Gi postmortem AI model 43:00 What you lose out on by using AI 55:40 Authenticity of perspective in art 57:43 What’s next for Dave 1:03:26 The most important thing you can do in the face of AI 1:12:30 The importance of failure 1:18:26 Advice for new artists in the time of AI 1:23:45 Outro, where to find and support Dave ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Protecting Artists from AI Technologies- Year 2 Fundraiser: Generative AI Has a Visual Plagiarism Problem: #:~:text=Implications for Midjourney,users to copyright infringement claims. Try Glaze: Read about Nightshade: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Take my gigantic Drawing Course ► ► Support me Patreon: — Receive early access to videos, Patron only footage, access to the Discord Community and more. Shop prints: ► Grab some of my Tutorials on Proko: on Gumroad: ► Follow me Instagram: ArtStation: Reach out ➔ stevensketches@ (I have trouble responding to all my messages these days, but I read nearly all of them). ______________________________________________________________________ ► Plugins for Photoshop • Sergey Kritskiy’s Layer Factory: ► Traditional Medium Paper ➔ Strathmore 400 Series Bristol Smooth Sketchbook ➔ Moleskine Sketchbook • 0.5 HB lead and very soft wood Pencils • 14B Pitt Graphite Matte / Black Faber-Castell Polychromos colored Pencils • Pilot Lucina fine point Fountain Pen • Copic alcohol Markers. ► Digital Set ups Tablet ➔ Huion Inspiroy WH1409 / Kamvas 24 Pro 4k • Photoshop on a PC • Clip Studio / Procreate on iPad Pro 12 inch with Apple Pencil _________________________________________________________ ► Credits Edited by Scindere: