What’s the world of entertainment, media, and tech worried about?

As a debut graphic novelist (https://skyfire.adimahi.com) and the Founder+CEO of Data Product Company LLC (https://www.dataproduct.company) that developed the MARCIE platform (https://www.marcie.app) and MARCIE Books (https://books.marcie.app) discovery engine I found myself compartmentalizing a lot, but the 4 intense days were worth the time, energy, and money.

Impact on the MARCIE platform, its roadmap, and the revenue model:

TLDR - GenAI features are out.

We decided to kill the Gen AI related features from MARCIE @ #nycc

The ICP focuses on experienced and career fiction writers. None are thrilled about development and use of #GenAI. Actually there is a lot of rage about it.

MARCIE’s AI features were “safe”. You know… there if you need it don’t have to use it if you don’t want to.

Promoting these features -that are considered career killers and condoning theft- goes against the purpose, which is to help writers do more of what they love, write!

It’s time to take “safe” features out, sharpen the message, and double down on the purpose.

The writers and authors for whom MARCIE is built deserve a platform that's hyper focused on their core needs - discovery and content ownership+privacy. So that's what the platform will focus on going forward to serve the storytellers.

Reflection on panels:

I attended 3 sessions on legal aspects of protecting intellectual property, chain of title, and tax implications - GenAI has made this process even more opaque. Recursive prompts are considered as evidence of contribution to generate the story. Lawyers are very aware that creative people want to engage lawyers with the same enthusiasm they have for dental visits. They will have figure out a way to genuinely appreciate their client’s art.

How to be an imagineer when GenAI is threatening to disrupt the entire storytelling supply chain?

A session with Joe Rhode (a Disney imagineer) offered a fascinating perspective (my raw notes): People are scared out of the art. GenAI replacing people is a business problem. GenAI image generation is based on normal distribution of what something looks like. Creative people pick datapoints outside the normal distribution curve and hyper focus on it to a point where they bend the curve so they are in the curve now - don’t work alone, test your ideas, find a group of people who foster your weird little imagination, break the mold, step outside the norm, consider everything as raw material.

Revolt of the humans: a professional session by industry insiders on how they are fighting back against GenAI’s infringement including creation of tech that renders the training data useless.

My overall takeaway:

What happens with art has a deep impact on science. These two fields are now inexplicable connected and humans being treated as feeders/raw material for development of tech, both GenAI and physical AI, is the new frontier for the society to tackle.

More to come…

These were all the photos of cosplays I took across all 4 days of the con. As always, real great seeing the stuff people come up with! Ramattra, Megamind and the Gundam gotta be my favorites of the bunch

There was a neat lightsaber duel going on that I wanted to post the brief video I recorded of it here (but can't since this sub doesn't allow videos)

And last of all, I got to meet Su Yin (the Hatsune Miku cosplayer) again on sunday! Love her cosplays!

I'm considering ordering some merch from the online store since I wasn't able to make it over there at the Con. But the shop link doesn't include any dimensions. How mini are we talking?

Would love to connect or see your photos if so! Not pictured charlie & alastor ren fair version on sunday

Thanks to all of you guys who let me photograph them!

Online Merch Store

There was a cosplayers cosplaying as yugi and dark magician girl,dexter's mom,professor from powerpuff girls and okarun I'm trying to find that please send it to me

Only went for 1 day but felt like I got a lot of good stuff and met a lot of awesome artists/ authors.

NYCC seems like the EoY show for many each year, for others it's Rhode Island.

Where's everyone heading for the remainder of the year?

Was there any booths that really caught your eye while at the con?

Hi hi fandom! I was interviewed on Saturday for the StarTrek fan meetup and I’m still waiting for it to drop. I’m sure there are other cosplayers here that got interviewed. Any idea where to find them? Is it posted throughout the year, do they not post everything and just consider it cut out and lower my expectations? Sorry if this is a weird ask, I’m just really excited since I’ve been cosplaying as my character for 5 years and finally got noticed by NYCC!

Welcome and Welcome back! Join me for my first ever New York Comic Con as I meet some of my favorite creators in comics, check out the Marvel Spiderweb Panel, hunt for comics, and explore the what biggest comic convention on the East Coast has to offer!

Had a lot of con goers take photos of me all 4 days but have no separate IG account for cosplay tagging. Was wondering if anyone saw me as HR Skeletor on Thursday and my Facehugger mask the rest of the weekend.

Honest question, I went and took my photos with people and went to booths and activities afterwards. I noticed on Instagram the same people with these big clunky cosplays that they spent thousands of dollars or hours on, are always in the same place. Are they just paying to go in and take photos, or do they enjoy the convention at some point?

Another great con in the books! Here’s some photos I got from this years fun.

This year was genuinely so peak!! (And did anybody see me 👀👀)

I took so many pics on Thursday but have t seen too many floating around. I’d love to have some more as I didn’t get a lot. Thanks in advance.

Also on Sunday if you got any pics of me and my son as Dr. Doom and little Galactus I’d love some of those to, but I know very few exist because he wasn’t really wearing the helmet too much 😆

Here's (most) of my NYCC haul for my first time going! Not all the issues I got are in the main picture bc they were packed already but all the signed ones are there; Steve Orlando, Jim Zub, Jackson Lanzing & Collin Kelly were my primary hits. I didn't want to brave Peach's table for my SW cover so I missed that one, and Tran Nguyen I kept missing all weekend somehow lmao. The CA Brubaker #1, the weird Chevrolet Winter Soldier promo issue & the Winter Kills issue were most of my other back issue finds. Definitely submitting the Winter Kills one to CGC as it's in pretty good shape and I have always wanted a graded copy of it!

My insane surprise is the last 2 pictures. TL;DR I, like some folks who've been posting on here, missed my Sebastian Stan autograph session due to him leaving early on Friday after a bad fan interaction. I was disappointed but ultimately kind of relieved because I wouldn't have wanted to have had a bad interaction with him myself following that. Well today I was shopping in NYC with a friend and we stopped in to Book-Off in Times Square, and they had the IW Bucky Barnes Hot Toys figure for sale second-hand there. Since my full refund for the autograph had gone through I used that money to buy it... only to realize when I got back to my hotel that the box was actually honest-to-God signed by Sebastian Stan. A few people have told me so far that it looks authentic, and I'm going to go with it being so until proven otherwise because holy cow, what a story! The store definitely did not notice it otherwise they wouldn't have been selling it for $200 - I barely saw it myself until it was under direct lightning. The figure retails for much more than that normally as well, so I got an absolute steal <3

Alls well that ends well as they say, and this was a truly incredible way to finish off my first-ever NYCC trip! I think next time I don't need to do all four days, that was my lesson learned 🫡 especially since I came all the way from Canada for this. That, and bring waaaaay more cash 😂

Buff Chiikawa cosplay made by me, modeled by my bf, please tag any cosplayers you may know from the photos in the comments!

I was lucky enough to get a signed Tokidoki card and sketch from Simone Legno, signed copy of Midnight X-Men #1 from Peach Momoko, a sketch variant cover of the same book and some cute plushies and my favorite bear Rilakkuma in Funko form.

Also purchased the strangest NYCC merch, the stainless steel water bottle that must hold 3 sips of water which also is a backpack charm

This post is for the guy who recorded Peach Momoko with meta glasses after staff EXPLICITLY TOLD US SHE WAS NOT COMFORTABLE WITH IT and then proceeded to post it on tiktok with the caption “finally fulfilled my bucket list”—YOU SUCK! Have a little respect. Peach went above and beyond this year for the fans despite having such a horrible experience the last time she was here. She did her best to make sure EVERYONE got a signature including all the people who didn’t win the autograph lottery in standby, and you couldn’t respect the one thing she asked of us. You’re a dick.

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