AI ‘art’ is boring, soulless theft – and when I see it as an artist I see red | Jess Harwood
An artist writing in The Guardian argues that AI-generated imagery is creatively hollow and built on the unauthorized use of human artists' work, describing her emotional and professional response to seeing it replace hand-made art.
Why this matters: This is an opinion piece, not a policy development, but it captures something real. Artists are watching their work get scraped, used to train models, and then replaced by outputs that look like their style without their consent or pay. The copyright questions around training data are still largely unresolved. Meanwhile, working artists are already feeling the economic pressure. The debate is not just philosophical. It is about who owns creative labor and whether the law will catch up before the damage is done.
Who should care: General readers · AI governance · Policy
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