{"id":130556,"date":"2025-11-12T02:21:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T02:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/130556\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T02:21:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T02:21:11","slug":"george-r-r-martins-team-on-game-of-thrones-ai-art-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/130556\/","title":{"rendered":"George R.R. Martin’s Team on Game of Thrones AI Art Allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"

George R.R. Martin\u2019s<\/a> team has finally addressed the backlash surrounding the latest edition of A Feast for Crows, which fans claimed was created using generative AI. It is the fourth novel in the A Song of Ice and Fire<\/a> series, which serves as the material for the Game of Thrones<\/a> universe. The accusations came after the release of Penguin Random House Worlds\u2019 twentieth anniversary edition of the novel. <\/p>\n

Accusations recently surfaced about the latest edition of A Feast for Crows. They claimed that it allegedly featured odd anatomical distortions, repeated character models, and offbeat details that resembled generative AI. <\/p>\n

Consequently, author George R. R. Martin\u2019s team faced immense backlash. Fans argued that the art resembled generative AI and seemed to draw from online fan art.<\/p>\n

In response, Raya Golden, the manager of art direction and licensing, posted on Martin\u2019s Not a Blog<\/a> to address the issue. \u201cMy name is Raya Golden, and I manage the art direction and licensing development here at Fevre River, working closely with GRRM as his schedule will allow. But I alone am responsible for approving all the licensed art that accompanies our SOI&F book-driven materials,\u201d the post began.<\/p>\n

\u201cRecently, there have been accusations floating around that the Penguin Random House\u2019s illustrated edition of A Feast For Crows was produced using AI generative art. To our knowledge and as presented by the artist who completed the work in question, there was no such programming used,\u201d Golden continued.<\/p>\n

Golden added, \u201cWhile he is a digital multimedia artist and relies on digital programming to complete his work, he has expressed unequivocally that no AI was used, and we believe him,\u201d denying the rumors of using AI-generated art.<\/p>\n

The post concluded with, \u201cThe official word from our office is, of course, that we do not willingly work with A.I. generative artists in any way, shape, or form.\u201d <\/p>\n

Despite the clarification, there remain doubts in the minds of fans. Moreover, this has been a recurring theme in many works recently. <\/p>\n

Meanwhile, George R.R. Martin has yet to comment on the accusations personally. However, he has previously criticized AI and its usage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"George R.R. Martin\u2019s team has finally addressed the backlash surrounding the latest edition of A Feast for Crows,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[90076,90077,365,442,498,499,500,501,156,1016,10519,54799,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-130556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-a-feast-for-crows","tag-a-song-of-ice-and-fire","tag-ai","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-entertainment-news","tag-game-of-thrones","tag-george-r-r-martin","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}