A collection of AI related stories I find interesting as an artist. Updated: Oct 9. 2025

DC Comics won’t support generative AI: ‘not now, not ever’

People have an instinctive reaction to what feels authentic. We recoil from what feels fake. That’s why human creativity matters. AI doesn’t dream. It doesn’t feel. It doesn’t make art. It aggregates it. - Jim Lee

The GenAI Divide. State of AI in Business 2025

ChatGPT's very limitations reveal the core issue behind the GenAI Divide: it
forgets context, doesn't learn, and can't evolve. For mission-critical work, 90% of users
prefer humans. The gap is structural, GenAI lacks memory and adaptability.

“First of its kind” AI settlement: Anthropic to pay authors $1.5 billion

Authors revealed today that Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5 billion and destroy all copies of the books the AI company pirated to train its artificial intelligence models.

Disney, Universal sue image creator Midjourney for copyright infringement

Universal filed a copyright lawsuit against Midjourney on Wednesday, calling its popular AI-powered image generator a "bottomless pit of plagiarism" for its use of the studios' best-known characters.

Procreate - "AI is not our future."

Generative AI is ripping the humanity out of things. Built on a foundation of theft, the technology is steering us toward a barren future. We think machine learning is a compelling technology with a lot of merit, but the path generative AI is on is wrong for us.

Artists Score Major Win in Copyright Case Against AI Art Generators

U.S. District Judge William Orrick on Monday advanced all copyright infringement and trademark claims in a pivotal win for artists. He found that Stable Diffusion, Stability’s AI tool that can create hyperrealistic images in response to a prompt of just a few words, may have been “built to a significant extent on copyrighted works” and created with the intent to “facilitate” infringement. The order could entangle in the litigation any AI company that incorporated the model into its products.

The rise of Cara: the anti-AI social media platform for artists

“Times have changed since we started all these lawsuits. There was a perception from the public that no one cares and it’s just a few loud activists. But now, here are one million people who care about this. It’s strength in numbers. It validates how people feel.”

Kobold Press Issues the No AI Pledge

Both as the Kobold Press CEO and as a game designer, I’m pleased to say that Kobold Press’s policy on AI is simple and direct: We don’t use generative AI art, we don’t use AI to generate text for our game design, and we don’t believe that AI is magical pixie dust that makes your tabletop games better.

I’m a Luddite (and So Can You!)

He wanted people to take pleasure in their work rather than "mere toiling to live, that we may live to toil.

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For the sake of transparency, here is my general stance on gen AI:

• I believe creators should own their art (images), writing (text), video and data.
• I do not believe AI datasets are entitled to use data sourced from copyrighted images / text without permission.
• I do not think AI generated images should fall under 'Fair Use'.
• I do not use AI / ML in any part of my art /or design process.

I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes. - Joanna Maciejewska

Image Credits: NO AI Design Project