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Anti AI Generative Art Resources
This post is a repository of all the links, videos, and articles pertinent to the fight against AI generative art.
I believe there is room for some form of AI (trained ethically, and heavily regulated) to exist without becoming a threat to creative (and non creative) livelihoods, but the current iteration of it is beyond dangerous. The situation is escalating daily and I wanted a place where I could collate all relevant info on the AI crisis. This is that place, and as such, this is a developing article which I plan to update periodically.
The above video details my 2 decades long career and how I’ve seen AI and automation wreak havoc on creatives and non creatives alike. I give a summary of where we are at, and what we can still do with regards to government policies, AI regulation, lawsuits against AI, including class action lawsuits, as well as social stigma and pressure.
A 7 minute explainer video on why Generative AI is parasitic, socially destructive, bad for the economy, and the environment.
- The Impact of AI on the Creative Industry
Column I wrote at the request of the Montreal AI Ethics Institute - Glaze Review
Video showing how Glaze (AI Defense) works with before and after comparisons. - Nightshade Review
Video showing how Nightshade (AI Offense) works with before and after comparisons.
How you can contribute to the fight against unethical AI
- Concept Art Association GoFundMe
The Concept Art Association has hired a lobbyist to push for regulation of AI in government policy in the US. Silicone Valley in California is one of the major hubs for AI in the world, so supporting this cause benefits all of us, even if you are not a US citizen. This is their Go Fund Me link if you want to contribute towards their expenses:
Year 1 GoFundMe Campaign
Year 2 GoFundMe Campaign - EGAIR Manifesto
The European Guild for Artificial Intelligence Regulation has a manifesto for AI companies regulation in Europe. You can sign the manifesto here, and also donate if you wish: - Distributed AI Research Institute
DAIR is a space for independent, community-rooted AI research, free from Big Tech’s pervasive influence. It is headed by Timnit Gebru (former Co-lead of Ethical AI research for Google). Their website has a donation option if you wish to support her efforts. - Montreal AI Ethics Institute
MAIEI is a non profit organization that aims build public competence in AI Ethics and publish innovative, applicable policy research. It is headed by Abhishek Gupta, who is also a machine learning engineer at Microsoft. Their website has a donation option if you wish to support their efforts. They also have an excellent newsletter called the AI Ethics Brief on substack. - Art Impact AI Coalition
Canadian policy and regulatory innovation with regards to AI - Open Letter to Generative AI Leaders
Open Letter petition from over 9000 Authors to AI leaders
Lawsuits Pertaining to AI and Legal Precedents/Regulations
- Getty vs Stability AI
Getty sues Stability AI for copying 12M photos and imitating famous watermark - Class Action against StabilityAI, DeviantArt and MidJourney
A group of artists — Sarah Andersen, Kelly McKernan, and Karla Ortiz — have filed a class-action lawsuit against Midjourney and Stability AI, companies behind AI art tools Midjourney and Stable Diffusion, and DeviantArt, which recently launched its own artificial intelligence art generator, DreamUp.
Since then Greg Rutkowski, Gerald Brom and others have joined the fight.
See Case Updates
Also if you want to know more about the lawyers fighting for them:
Meet the lawyers - GitHub Copilot Litigation
Microsoft, its subsidiary GitHub, and its business partner OpenAI have been targeted in a proposed class action lawsuit alleging that the companies’ creation of AI-powered coding assistant GitHub Copilot relies on “software piracy on an unprecedented scale.”
See Case Updates - ‘Artist’ receives US copyright for a comic she generated via AI, then loses it
Artist receives first known US copyright registration for latent diffusion AI art, and then gets it revoked after office learns how AI works - China bans AI-generated media without watermarks
China’s Cyberspace Administration recently issued regulations prohibiting the creation of AI-generated media without clear labels, such as watermarks. The new rules aim to spur growth and ban deception in the generative AI field. - EU Law to Force AI Imagers to Disclose Copyrighted Photos in Dataset
Midjourney and DALL-E do not publically disclose their data sources. But, the former has admitted to using “hundreds of millions” of images without consent. - Authors file a lawsuit against OpenAI for unlawfully ‘ingesting’ their books
Mona Awad and Paul Tremblay have filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, the company behind the artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT, claiming that the organisation breached copyright law by “training” its model on novels without the permission of authors. - Authors Suing OpenAI for Copyright Infringement
Seventeen authors, including George R. R. Martin, and the Authors Guild are suing OpenAI for copyright infringement. - White House executive order
AI content needs to be watermarked and other directives - US Record Labels Sue AI Music Generators
Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, and Sony Music Groups Sue AI Music Generators Suno and Udio for Copyright Infringement - The Content Origin Protection and Integrity from Edited and Deepfaked Media Act, or COPIED Act
Bipartisan AI bill aims to give journalists, artists control over content
The Act - OpenAI Whistleblower Suchir Balaji’s Parents Think He Was Murdered
Suchir Balaji left OpenAI after disgust over the copyright infringement he witnessed while in their employmen, and was made a witness in the lawsuit case filed by the New York Times against OpenAI. His family alleged that the police covered up his murder, and that his pen drive was missing from the crime scene. - Judge Rejects Fair-Use Defense in Westlaw AI Copyright Suit
Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH convinced a federal judge an AI-powered legal tool’s ingestion of its data isn’t “fair use” under copyright law. - US appeals court rejects copyrights for AI-generated art lacking ‘human’ creator
A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., on 18 March 2025 affirmed that a work of art generated by artificial intelligence without human input cannot be copyrighted under U.S. law. - French authors and publishers sue Meta for using their books to train AI
France’s leading associations representing authors and publishers on Wednesday said they had filed a lawsuit against US tech titan Meta for what they alleged was the widespread use of copyright-protected texts to train AI models. - AI-generated music has, once again, been deemed public domain and impossible to copyright
It’s official. Work (be it art or music or any kind of content, it seems) produced 100% by AI cannot be copyrighted. That is, if a machine made it, then no human can claim ownership and profit from it. The ruling backs up a decision from earlier this year, and adherence to the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976. - Denmark id fighting AI by giving citizens copyright to their own faces
Your image, your voice, and your essence as a human being could be gobbled up and regurgitated by AI. Denmark has put forth a proposal that would give every one of its citizens the legal ground to go after someone who uses their image without their consent. - Beijing court hands AI copyright violators up to 18 months in prison
Four individuals who used artificial intelligence to infringe on the copyrights of online artworks have been sentenced to up to 18 months in prison, along with fines, according to a recent ruling by the Beijing Tongzhou District People’s Court.
Studies about AI
- AI Tools in Society: Impacts on Cognitive Offloading and the Future of Critical Thinking
researchers found that frequent AI tool users engage in more cognitive offloading, reducing deep analytical thinking. Younger users, in particular, showed higher dependence on AI tools and lower critical thinking scores. - The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking: Self-Reported Reductions in Cognitive Effort and Confidence Effects From a Survey of Knowledge Workers
Researchers found that increased reliance on generative AI weakens critical thinking skills, leading to cognitive “atrophy” where users lose the ability to evaluate information independently. Participants reported less confidence in their own judgment when AI was available, shifting from active problem-solving to passive oversight.
Artist resources in the fight against AI generative art
- Glaze
A free downloadable tool that you can feed artwork into, and it adds a protective layer to foil attempts of AI scrapers.
How to use Glaze Art Protection (video demo) - Nightshade
A tool that goes a step further than Glaze by also introducing incorrect information into the training data when scraped.
How to use Nightshade Anti AI (video demo) - Kudurru.AI
A plugin for your website that actively blocks AI scrapers. Currently in beta. - AI Scraper Tarpits
Various malware has been developed catch the AI scrapers in an endless loop of gibberish. This potentially poisons the dataset, but at the very least wastes their resources. The 3 main ones reported on by Ars Technica are:
Nepenthes, Locaine, and Quixotic - .ASS Extension
Poison AI bots scraping your YouTube subtitles to steal your video content. - Artgram
A free artists’ portfolio platform. Their mission statement says it does not support AI-generated work and never will. - Newgrounds
A free artists’ portfolio platform that does not allow AI generated art. - ArtFol
A free artists’ portfolio app (and web platform in beta) that also does not allow AI content. - Have I Been Trained?
Search 5.8 billion images used to train popular AI art models to see if your art was used to train AI - Clip Front, Laoin5b database searcher
Input the prompt to find the images that were likely used to generate the ai art - Optic AI or Not
Online Tool that helps determine whether an image has been generated by artificial intelligence or a human - Illuminarty
Another Online Tool that helps determine whether an image has been generated by artificial intelligence or a human - Hive
Another Online Tool that helps determine whether an image (or text) has been generated by artificial intelligence or a human - Cara
A free artists’ portfolio app and web platform that also does not allow AI content, and has now also incorporated Glaze technology.
Sign up for Glaza within Cara - Artists Against Generative AI
A Facebook group which serves as a thriving community of artists sharing anti AI sentiment and news. Good source of anti AI memes too. - Yuify
A blockchain related plugin for art apps that adds an invisible micro-mark into the image, which is then connected permanently to an artist on the blockchain. My personal thought is that this has the potential for misuse, so am not particularly enthused about it.
Watch my video review of Yuify - Mist
Mist is a watermarking tool (similar to Glaze) that protects against img2img AI (where an existing image is changed to something else, like deep fakes). - The Art Of Poison-Pilling Music Files
Musicians may soon have a way to push back against thieving AI companies via a concept called “adversarial music”, in the same way that Nightshade is adversarial images for art.
Important conversations around AI
- Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
A book by journalist Brian Merchant on the true history of the Luddites. Spoiler alert: they were amazing. Brian also has an excellent substack on AI, silicon valley, labour and power - Vibe Coded Podcast
A sensible new podcast series by Jared White, the writer of the ‘Cycles Hyped No More’ newsletter. - Disturbing interview with AGI zealot (video)
Stan Prokopenko (proko.com) interviews Evan Conrad (who facilitates grants for AI companies) and talks to him about the imminent job losses creatives will face, and his AGI (artifical general intelligence) utopia, where no one has jobs. - Concept Art Association AI Town Hall (video)
A virtual townhall concerning AI and our creative industries, hosted by Karla Ortiz, and featuring many creative industry leaders. - Senate Judiciary Committee holds hearing on AI and copyright — 07/12/23 (video)
Witnesses testifying include Jeffrey Harleston, general counsel and executive VP of business and legal affairs at Universal Music Group; Karla Ortiz, concept artist and illustrator; Matthew Sag, professor of artificial intelligence at Emory University School of Law; Dana Rao, executive VP and general counsel at Adobe Inc., and Ben Brooks, head of public policy at Stability AI. - Webinar on Copyright Law as it pertains to AI
Reedsy hosted a presentation and q&a by Andrés Guadamuz, a lawyer and veteran in the space of AI legal discourse. - AI Art and its Impact on Artists
A paper by Harry Jiang, Lauren brown, Jessica Cheng, Mehtab Khan, the late Abhishek Gupta, Deja Workman, Alex Hanna, Jonathan Flowers, and Timnet Gebru. - Copy + Paste + Steal Documentary
Documentary by CNA Insider featuring Jingna Zhang, Kelly McKernan, and Ben Zhao - The Truth About Silicon Valley’s Radical Vision for AI
Documentary exposing the actual motivations for the AGI goal and deregulation drive. - Senate Judiciary Hearing On ‘AI Industry’s Mass Ingestion Of Copyrighted Works’
16 July, 2025. Big Tech has blatantly trained their models on stolen, torrented copyrighted data and has not been prosecuted while individuals have.
Creative companies/organizations aligning with artists
- Hero: Paizo
Paizo has banned AI art and content in its RPGs, including community-created work. The Pathfinder and Starfinder company commits to work by ‘human professionals’ - Hero: Concept Art Association
An advocacy organization for artists working in entertainment. Their board member, Karla Ortiz, has been one of the leaders in our industry fighting back against the unethical practices happening in the AI text-to-image space. - Hero: Getty Images
Getty Images has banned the upload and sale of illustrations generated using AI art tools like DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion. - Hero: PurplePort
PurplePort, a modelling and photographer portal, has banned machine-generated images, and wishes to remain an inspiring source of human-generated and human-focused art. - Hero: r/Art SubReddit
The r/art has stated in its rules that no AI Art is allowed on the subreddit. They are perhaps a bit overzealous with their moderating as some real artsists may get caught in the crossfire. - Hero: INPRINT
InPrnt’s code of conduct states that you may not use the Platform to upload, download, use, share, buy, sell or distribute any artworks generated via an automated software process that utilizes artificial intelligence and/or machine learning. - Hero: Wizards of the Coast
After an artist was called out for using AI in a DnD sourcebook, WotC put out a statement that they will not allow it in the future. - Hero: Escape Motions (Rebelle)
Escape Motions put out a statement that thye will not include generative AI in Rebelle, ban gen ai images from the community gallery, and block scraping from same. - Hero: Procreate
Procreate takes a stand against generative AI, vows to never incorporate the tech into its products - Hero: Kobold Press
Kobold Press Issues the No AI Pledge
Creative companies/organizations aligning with AI
- Traitors: Epic Games & Artstation
Artstation (owned by Epic Games) refuses to ban AI art, and actively hides protest art - Traitors: Wix & DeviantArt
DeviantArt, owned by Wix (who have already put many designers out of business via automation) have started DreamUp, an AI generator. - Traitors: Adobe & Behance
Behance have nothing in their terms of service regarding AI, but given that they are owned by Adobe, who have their own generative art tool (Firefly), it is assumed your work will not be safe on that platform. Adobe have stated in their FireFly FAQ that they have used work submitted to Adobe stock to train FireFly and that there is no way for contributors to opt out. - Traitor: Shutterstock
Shutterstock has announced an extended partnership with OpenAI, which will see the AI lab’s text-to-image model DALL-E 2 directly integrated into Shutterstock - Traitor: Blizzard
A new Blizzard patent has detailed a system to use AI to generate artwork based on a specific style by emulating it. - Traitors: Disney/Marvel
The opening-credits sequence of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s latest show, Secret Invasion, was generated by AI. - Traitors: Corel/Alludo
Since Alludo bought Corel, they have betrayed the designers and illustrators that have supported Corel products for years by developing generative AI software, VectorFX and VisionFX. - Traitor: Figma
Figma has implemented generative AI into it’s system betraying the designers that have supported it for years. - Traitor: Hasbro
Hasbro CEO says all his mates are using AI for their D&D games, which is apparently ‘a clear signal
Creative jobs lost to / negatively affected by AI & Automation
- Digital Art: This artist is dominating AI-generated art. And he’s not happy about it.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/09/16/1059598/this-artist-is-dominating-ai-generated-art-and-hes-not-happy-about-it/ - Concept Art: Blizzard implements machine learning to help generate concept art, and AI will also be used for voice cloning, and game coding.
https://kotaku.com/blizzard-ai-art-stable-diffusion-concept-activision-1850463809 - Stock Art: Adobe Stock creators say Firefly’s popularity is making it far less likely that users will purchase stock images.
https://venturebeat.com/ai/adobe-stock-creators-arent-happy-with-firefly-the-companys-commercially-safe-gen-ai-tool/ - Art Contest: Image generated by MidJouney entered into the Colorado State Fair fine arts competition, where it won first place, beating real artists.
https://www.pcgamer.com/human-uses-ai-to-win-art-competition-other-humans-angry/ - Art Contest: An AI generated piece won 1 of 5 spots in the Hague museum for a Vermeer contest.
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20230310-girl-with-ai-earrings-sparks-dutch-art-controversy - Photography: Viral Instagram Photographer confesses his photos are AI generated
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/02/viral-instagram-photographer-has-a-confession-his-photos-are-ai-generated/ - Photography: Photographer refuses 1st prize in competition for his AI image
https://petapixel.com/2023/04/14/artist-refuses-prize-after-his-ai-image-wins-at-top-photo-contest/ - Game Art: High on Life computer game using generated AI art in game.
https://www.thegamer.com/high-on-life-ai-generated-art/ - Promotional Art: San Francisco Ballet uses AI to generate promo graphic design for the Nutcracker.
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/san-francisco-ballet-catches-heat-for-promoting-its-nutcracker-performances-with-a-i-generated-art-2236291 - Journalists/Content Creators: Buzzfeed replaced 12% of its workforce with AI
https://mpost.io/buzzfeed-cut-12-of-its-staff-and-replaced-employees-with-ai/ - News Editors: Meta replaced news editors with AI algorithms
https://mpost.io/meta-to-replace-facebook-news-editors-with-ai-algorithms/ - Journalists: Microsoft has replaced some of their journalists with AI
https://www.forbes.com/sites/quickerbettertech/2020/06/07/microsoft-is-replacing-employees-with-aiand-other-small-business-tech-news/ - Creative Writing: Clarkesworld closes scifi story submissions due to influx of AI submissions
http://neil-clarke.com/a-concerning-trend/ - Newsletter Content: Viral article on Substack busted as AI-written
https://futurism.com/ai-written-article-plagiarized - Journalists: Layoffs at CNET due to AI pivot
https://futurism.com/cnet-layoffs-ai - Comic Book Art: Comics with AI art: what’s out there, what’s to come
https://www.comicsbeat.com/all-about-ai-comics/ - Children’s Book Art: Guy uses AI to publish a children’s book in a weekend.
https://time.com/6240569/ai-childrens-book-alice-and-sparkle-artists-unhappy/ - Photobashing: Photographer faithfully recreates his work using text to image generator
https://www.diyphotography.net/photographer-faithfully-recreates-his-work-using-text-to-image-generator/ - Comic Book Art: AI Drew This Gorgeous Comics Series. You’d Never Know It
https://www.cnet.com/culture/ai-drew-this-gorgeous-comics-series-youd-never-know-it/ - Anime Girly Art: PicSo is an AI-powered digital art generator that creates images especially anime and realistic girl images from input text.
https://www.producthunt.com/products/picso#picso - Logo Design: Adobe Express Logo Maker lets you generate logos by filling in a form
https://express.adobe.com/express-apps/logo-maker/ - Game Assets & VoiceOvers: New AI tools have like ChatGPT and Midjourney will change game development forever. But for better or worse?
https://exputer.com/exputer/generative-ai-changing-gaming/ - Content Creators: Your favorite Youtuber will soon be replaced.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60of_Cu8nJQ - Voice Actors: Voice actors remain sceptical about the use of AI in gaming
https://www.eurogamer.net/voice-actors-remain-sceptical-about-the-use-of-ai-in-gaming - Graphic Designers & Copywriters: One of China’s largest media and public relations companies, Bluefocus Intelligent Communications Group Co. is planning on replacing its external copywriters and graphic designers with generative AI models, and more of the country’s industry giants could follow suit.
https://www.techspot.com/news/98314-company-replace-creative-workers-chatgpt-like-generative-ai.html - Non fiction authors and content creators: Amazon being flooded with AI generated books and fake reviews, as well as news outlets cranking out AI generated articles.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/05/05/ai-spam-websites-books-chatgpt/ - Architects: 500-room hotel complex designed in minutes with the help of AI, and then built.
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/aug/07/ai-architects-revolutionising-corbusier-architecture - Actors: SAG-AFTRA is worried about AI, but can it really replace actors? It already has.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/tv/2023/08/01/ai-and-hollywood-strikes-what-the-real-threat-is-to-actors-writers/70436618007/
Non creative jobs lost to / negatively affected by AI & Automation
- Entry Level Coders: OpenAI has been making major moves to hire an “army” of outside contractors to better train a model how to code — an operation that could ultimately render entry-level coding jobs extinct.
https://futurism.com/the-byte/openai-replace-entry-level-coders-ai - Game Coders: watch a Blizzard game director code a game using nothing but ChatGpt
https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/watch-a-blizzard-game-director-code-a-game-using-nothing-but-chatgpt - Cashiers: The Real Minimum Wage Is Zero’: McDonald’s Restaurant Uses Automation For Pickups And Orders.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-real-minimum-wage-is-zero-mcdonalds-restaurant-uses-automation-for-pickups-and-orders - Robotics: Researchers are building robots that can build themselves.
https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/22/researchers-are-building-robots-that-can-build-themselves/ - Fry Cooks: CEO brags that dry cook robot will replace obsolete human grunts.
https://futurism.com/the-byte/ceo-brags-that-fry-cook-robot-will-replace-obsolete-human-grunts - Product Developers: Dropbox is laying off 500 people and pivoting to AI
https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/27/23700629/dropbox-laying-off-500-people-pivoting-ai