AI Artwork Canonicity and Copyright/Disclaimers

I have largely employed Artificial Intelligence to generate concept references for my series, although it is only a placeholder meant to guide an artist in the future. However, AI image-generating technology is still advancing; it is nowhere near perfect. As a result, even while heavily photoshopping my images, it is impossible to make the AI images perfectly resemble the scenes in the Interitus series. Because of this, all artwork anywhere in this blog should be considered non-canon to the Interitus series. It is instead only a reference guide to help form the multimedia experience. If there is a discrepancy between the words in a passage and the accompanying image, trust the words; those are correct. Due to the limitations of AI image-generating at this time, some images have very low quality. This is especially true with hands and faces, so I ask that you not look too closely at the images. They're merely references. You will also (constantly) notice inconsistencies in the characters, but hopefully this will change as my own art improves or I attain the resources to employ a human artist.

Furthermore, I do not own any AI-generated image posted on this blog. Because they are AI-generated, the images are an amalgam of countless images across the internet (reimagined across genres and styles) through algorithms I cannot realistically reverse. It is impossible to properly credit the people who made this possible. Though on that note, I generally prompt the AI such that it mostly learns from older images and older works of art, simply reimagining them through a more modern (photorealistic) lens. The images are then heavily photoshopped in order to be mostly-consistent with the story. 

Do keep in mind, however, that the words in this blog and the Interitus characters are the intellectual property of the creator (me). The images may be artificially generated, but the story itself was not generated by any machine on any level.

Another note: AI image-generators are very poor at creating images of people with darker skin. This will lower the quality throughout the Interitus universe; it's probably very obvious in The Dawn of Destruction. In A World without Misery, Vaida's burns are all made by me in photoshop.