I'm tired of sitting through #science talks where all plots are properly credited but artist's impressions and photographs aren't.
As a researcher and astrophotographer who works with super talented artists, this attitude really bothers me.
You study galaxies at the dawn of time. You look for biomarkers in the atmospheres of distant planets. You can most definitely find who made that cool image you just pasted in your slides.
To those who do credit #art : you're awesome 🤗
@astro_jcm I know that this problem tends to reinforce itself as scientists often use uncredited images from other talks or something they found on the Internet
But often a few minutes with TinEye will identify the creator.
@astro_jcm HELL YES to this.
As someone who started in the arts and had an earful of people stealing my work and telling me it wasn't worth anything anyway (despite them wanting to use it), I have been disappointed at how so many scientists perpetuate this (now that I'm a Masters student in STEM and able to see).
Esp those cool with using AI that stole from artists to generate visuals for their slides, blog, etc.
@ml I feel you.
"It's just a picture, why would I credit it, anyone can do this."
"Fine, show me how you would do it."
<brain implodes>
Bryan
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