HOW IT STARTED .(creature design sketches, age 6). HOW ITS GOING .(lead creature design credit #AvatarTheWayOfWater, age 30-something)

Me abandoning my TwitterX account for Bluesky

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I guess they’re just letting anyone speak at these things now! 😂😂😂. Excited to announce that I’ll be participating in a huge Avatar fan event in early January! Registration/details in the link below:.

Link to my account on the other place:

Hey #avatar fam, a friendly reminder that I will probably be spending a lot less time here, and migrating over a lot of what would have happened here to the blue place. Come find me there, and let's connect! (I'm also still fairly active on IG)

Beyond grateful to be working with a group that legitimately cares about their people! 💙. Click through to Check out some new #AvatarFireandAsh artwork by @DylanColeArt, @messing_art, and myself shown at @DisneyD23 in Brazil over the weekend!.

Well, this is a career first - so cool to have artwork shared by the official accounts and actually have my name credited!! 🤯🤯🤯.Speaks volumes about @DylanColeArt, Ben Procter, Aashrita Kamath and the rest of the leadership for making sure the team receives proper credit!!.

US friends: let's keep Lina Khan! If there's a single gov official that may be the most helpful in the regulatory battles reining in big tech in the coming years, it's her! Link to a letter on how you can help - it'll take you 5 minutes:

RT @kortizart: If you like Lina Khan and want her to continue to do amazing work at the @FTC , call your Senators, call the VP’s office, sh….

RT @mmitchell_ai: ICYMI: LinkedIn is using your data to train its AI by default. I was opted-in without giving explicit consent; you may be….

RT @bcmerchant: This should be bigger news: AI is *revitalizing the fossil fuels industry.*. Bloomberg called it a "surprising resurgence"….

@IATSE @sagaftra @WGAWest @WGAEast @directorsguild Hoping I can once again kindly ask for a signal boost @Rahll @JustineBateman @JonLamArt (@kortizart was already kind enough to share). TYIA.

Unions like @IATSE @sagaftra @WGAWest @WGAEast @directorsguild etc. should be pushing back on this in the press NOW. We don't want to send a signal to the other major film studios that this is okay. (There are already rumors that Paramount has okayed the use of Runway) 7/

My current understanding is that Lionsgate is not a part of the AMPTP. That being said, this sets a dangerous precedent of allowing a film studio to "ask forgiveness, not permission" of using "stolen" copyrighted data in an AI product. We shouldn't let this go unchallenged. 6/.

Additionally Runway is being sued for potential copyright infringement. While the lawsuit is still ongoing, it could very easily end up landing in the plaintiff's favor: 5/.

So even if @runwayml is providing @Lionsgate a proprietary model trained off of Lionsgate properties, it is incredibly likely that it is built off of a model with this other "stolen" content in the mix. We know that AI models can't easily "unlearn" training information 4/

We know that @runwayml has trained their AI products on copyrighted content, including "the YouTube channels of thousands of media and entertainment companies, including The New Yorker, VICE News, Pixar, Disney, Netflix, Sony, and many others" 3/

At the time I and others called that out for being extremely shortsighted and suggested there was nothing stopping the studios from creating their own proprietary AI models, and here we are only a few months later: 2/

.@IATSE members (like myself) were told by leadership that the reason there were major concessions to the studios on the AI portion of the recent contract deal was because the studios were so scared of the copyright implications of the technology. 1/

RT @iodine_x64: I'm not often compelled to speak out about things like this - but are companies like Google and OpenAI aware of the serious….

Went to an event where they showed this off over the weekend. It’s amazing. Full @maxonzbrush on iPad. No corners cut. I believe if you have an iPad Pro, you can download it now.