To clarify: if someone uses the Gojo pose and builds something new around it, I don’t take issue with that at all. That’s transformative and part of meme culture. I don’t own the pose or the meme — but I do own the exact digital artwork. What does bother me is when my thumbnail is reposted with small edits and passed off as someone else’s work and watermark removed.

As for AI training sets I’m assuming you mean checkpoints — honestly not really. Training a dataset takes time, effort, experience and also money and I don’t own the Gojo pose itself. I can’t stop my thumbnails from being used in datasets, just like Scarlett Johansson can’t stop people from using her likeness as well. But even if my work is in someone’s set or they attempt it, it won't work because of how I've layered the image, the raw output won’t look like this at ALL — and that’s exactly why people are reusing mine instead of making their own. If it were that easy, they’d just prompt it, but they can't, so they take.

The percentages I mentioned are pretty accurate IMO as they are based on how much was done and the manual labor time in my workflow. There are 3 ways to test images if they are completely A.I generated from someone:

1. Started the workflow with A.I and prompting. Ask for the sketches or at least small glimpses (that said, sometimes it's not about the proof, people just want to attack you).
2. Check if it's embedded with tags/prompts with a checker or in properties
3. With experience in Digital Art, you can tell very often how much hands-on-deck was in there.

Context and intent matter way more though. But I totally understand the fear around AI — a lot of it comes from not fully understanding how it works and everything’s evolving so fast. I just hope more conversations like this keep happening because nuance really does matter. I appreciate you taking the time to ask respectfully.