Artist Guides

10 new rules for artists online
10 Rules all artists should follow to protect their art, practice, and artistic-identities.  Read more...
Visibility and "reach" alone does not lead to success
Most artists want their work to be seen, but without meaningfully empowering the extraction of the work by machines. AI systems, scraping bots, and bad actors thrive on things like: scale — vast numbers of pages or images available without restriction clarity — clean, front-on, high-resolution, easy-to-parse pictures repetition — large volumes of similar images over time Artists, by contrast, thrive on: context ambiguity relationships with real people because our work lives in the real world Your job isn’t to disappear from view — it’s to design the way your work... Read more...
An artist's guide in the age of AI
There’s an important paradox at the heart of what’s happening online today: - You do not protect art by hiding it.- You protect art by circulating it with care. We will not beat AI at its own game. The goal is therefore to make your work unappealing to extract and difficult for machines to understand. We aim to explain how to circulate your work without feeding extraction systems. Because simply being on the web doesn’t mean someone should grab your images, feed them into a dataset, or repurpose them without... Read more...