"Synthetic Comics" is just a pretentious way of saying "I stole this".
Andy Oliver
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The line collapses the ethics debate into a blunt accusation, framing generative AI not as experimentation but as appropriation and drawing a hard editorial boundary rather than inviting nuance.
Editor's note
Strong editorial line. Its force comes from clarity, but that same clarity leaves little room for distinctions between legal, moral, and community arguments.
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The context
In Broken Frontier's April 2026 Andytorial, editor Andy Oliver reaffirmed the site's zero-tolerance policy toward generative AI art in comics.
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