{"id":243471,"date":"2026-05-31T18:28:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T18:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/31\/this-is-fine-artist-kc-green-reaches-agreement-with-ai-startup-artisan-techcrunch\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T18:28:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T18:28:17","slug":"this-is-fine-artist-kc-green-reaches-agreement-with-ai-startup-artisan-techcrunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/31\/this-is-fine-artist-kc-green-reaches-agreement-with-ai-startup-artisan-techcrunch\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018This is fine\u2019 artist KC Green reaches agreement with AI startup Artisan | TechCrunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After criticizing a startup called Artisan for misusing his work, artist KC Green \u2014 creator of <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/knowyourmeme.com\/memes\/this-is-fine\" target=\"_blank\">the famous \u201cThis is fine\u201d meme<\/a> \u2014 said he\u2019s reached an agreement with Artisan.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The dispute arose after the startup <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/05\/03\/this-is-fine-creator-says-ai-startup-stole-his-art\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">appeared to use a version of Green\u2019s art<\/a> to promote its AI assistant Ava. In Artisan\u2019s bus and subway ads, Green\u2019s recognizable dog sat amid recognizable flames, but instead of saying \u201cThis is fine,\u201d it declared, \u201cMy pipeline is on fire,\u201d while the ad urged people to \u201cHire Ava the AI BDR.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier this month, Green posted on social media that his art had been \u201cstolen like AI steals\u201d and urged his followers to \u201cvandalize\u201d the ads if they saw them. He also told TechCrunch he was frustrated about having to \u201ctry my hand at the American court system\u201d instead of putting that time into his comics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Artisan, meanwhile, told us it has \u201ca lot of respect for Green and his work.\u201d Then, earlier this week, founder and CEO Jaspar Carmichael-Jack said the two sides had come to an agreement. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When TechCrunch reached out to Green, he confirmed that they\u2019d \u201creached a settlement pretty quick,\u201d with Artisan taking down the ads in New York and San Francisco that used his character, and Green taking down his initial post.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/05\/31\/this-is-fine-artist-kc-green-reaches-agreement-with-ai-startup-artisan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After criticizing a startup called Artisan for misusing his work, artist KC Green \u2014 creator of the famous \u201cThis is fine\u201d meme \u2014 said he\u2019s reached an agreement with Artisan.\u00a0 The dispute arose after the startup appeared to use a version of Green\u2019s art to promote its AI assistant Ava. In Artisan\u2019s bus and subway [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":243472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-243471","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}