I am altogether opposed to the use of what is called generative AI in the making of artwork of any kind. My reasons for this I explained in my 2025 essay I Am Not a Paintbrush.
Shortly after writing this essay, I placed a sign at the bottom of the pages on my website declaring that no generative AI whatsoever was used in my art or writing. It occurred to me that other artists, writers, and musicians might want to use similar signs and labels, so I decided to make them available for free to anyone. Click on any of the images below to download a .zip file containing these signs in various formats and sizes.
You have my permission to use or reproduce these signs in any form, digital or print, provided that you do so honestly (that is, without using generative AI yourself) and do not sell them for profit.
I drew St. Thomas Aquinas in miniature in the bas-de-page of a picture of St. Albert (one of St. Thomas’s teachers) from 2013.
According to legend, Albertus Magnus had spent thirty years devising an oracular head, a mechanical device that could answer questions posed to it. Thomas Aquinas smashed it to pieces. Different versions of the story say that this was out of annoyance, or of fright; I prefer to think that St. Thomas had prophetic insight into the evils such devices could and would cause.
While I generally avoid putting my religious drawings on everyday merchandise, I thought that this small scene was timely and appropriate and humorous enough to make an exception:
I have added the above image to my Redbubble store, where it can be ordered on shirts, sweaters, stickers, magnets, and mugs.
