A hands-on demo of a real open-source pipeline that illustrates and animates a public domain novel using Gemini, Nano Banana, and Veo, with audience participation. This talk is very suitable for both techies and non-techies.

Then we'll step back from the code and talk about what we just did: an honest conversation about the ethics of AI-generated illustration, what's lost when style and character design are automated, and where working artists, copyright, and consent fit into tools like this.

Where does "public domain" end and that "ethically fine-line" begin?