Human Artistry Campaign

Oh, wait, that's not good either.

Here's to 30 years of progress!

And the "Gen" in "GenAI" stands for "Giving Ertists Nothing."

At the risk of hypocrisy, we must admit that not even this bumper sticker is real. #StillNotAI

The best genre of music is the kind that requires human brainpower, not nuclear power.

Breaking Bad? No, just Feeling Sad.
(This joke brought to you by the incredible power of the human mind.)

It’ll be easy to know if some other worldly alien is involved due to the amount of fingers alone.

We're not anti-tech, we're anti-theft. If the future of “innovation” depends on stealing creators’ work without asking or paying, that’s not progress - it's stealing, and we shouldn’t accept it. #StealingIsntInnovation www.stealingisntinnovation.com/

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

Per usual, @theonion.com said the quiet part out loud again. They get it.

Stealing art is one thing, but stealing a generation’s confidence in their own abilities is unbelievable

People Are Making Sora 2 Videos of Stephen Hawking Being Horribly Brutalized People are using OpenAI's Sora 2 to generate videos of theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking being brutalized in ghoulish ways.

Why do we need this? This isn't innovation. It's evil slop.
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People Are Making Sora 2 Videos of Stephen Hawking Being Horribly Brutalized People are using OpenAI's Sora 2 to generate videos of theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking being brutalized in ghoulish ways.

Genuine question - what are OpenAI’s Sora and other video generation tools good for?

I am honestly trying to understand what is so important that it’s worth the cost. If you have examples, I would be interested to hear them.

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a subway ad reading “I’ll binge the entire series with you.” the URL of the product has been covered over with SLOP.com

Spotted on the G train on one of those dystopian AI friend ads

Opinion | I Sued Anthropic, and the Unthinkable Happened

"This settlement sends a clear message to the Big Tech companies splashing generative A.I. over every app and page and program: You are not above the law."
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Human Artistry Campaign Statement on Historic $1.5 Billion Settlement in Bartz v. Anthropic September 5, 2025 (Washington, DC) -- This settlement is a huge victory not only for the authors involved, but for all writers, artists, and creators who know that their work has value and their rights should be respected when it comes to AI uses. We hope this is just the first of many AI companies to be held accountable for their theft of creative work, and that it helps set a precedent that consent and compensation for works used in AI training are nonnegotiable. Authors who think their work may have been included in the pirated databases used by Anthropic can learn more about how to file a claim for compensation at AnthropicCopyrightLawsuit.com. When it comes to AI accountability and fighting for creators’ rights, this is just the beginning – but a powerful, historic start. ###

Human Artistry Campaign Statement on Historic $1.5 Billion Settlement in Bartz v. Anthropic

Anthropic Agrees to Pay $1.5 Billion to Settle Lawsuit With Book Authors

"In a landmark settlement, Anthropic, a leading artificial intelligence company, has agreed to pay $1.5 billion to a group of authors and publishers after a judge ruled it had illegally downloaded and stored millions of copyrighted books."

‘The Largest IP Theft in Human History’: Breaking Down The Years-Long Investigation Into How AI Firms Are Stealing Music How AI firms like OpenAI and Meta steal music by scraping copyrighted works to train generative artificial intelligence systems, according to ICMP.

'''This is the largest IP theft in human history. That’s not hyperbole. We are seeing tens of millions of works being infringed daily.'" -- How AI Firms Are Stealing Music @billboard.com
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Sen. Amy Klobuchar renews push for legislation to crack down on AI deepfakes This comes after a fake video went viral on social media in recent weeks manipulating Klobuchar's voice into making inappropriate comments.

“There have to be rules of the road, so that regular people aren't roadkill for these big companies making money off viral videos.” @klobuchar.senate.gov

Deepfakes don’t discriminate. Athletes, artists, leaders, and everyday people are all targets. It’s time for safeguards. bit.ly/45KQZBX

Opinion | Amy Klobuchar: What I Didn’t Say About Sydney Sweeney

"With A.I., the technology has gotten ahead of the law, and we can’t let it go any further without rules of the road." @klobuchar.senate.gov

Congress must act now to protect Americans from deepfakes.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/opinion/amy-klobuchar-deepfakes.html?smid=bs-share

xAl's new Grok image and video generator has a 'spicy' mode

A FEW MOMENTS LATER

Grok's 'spicy' video setting instantly made me Taylor Swift nude deepfakes

Copyright Licensing Powers Responsible AI – DC Journal - InsideSources Generative artificial intelligence has three basic (and seemingly insatiable) needs: energy, chips and training content. We are all familiar with how AI

Great piece by Copyright Clearance Center CEO Tracey Armstrong: “What good are AI-generated summaries of today’s news if there are no journalists to report it?… Stealing American creativity only weakens AI by starving it of quality inputs in the long term.”

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Following the US Senate's 99-1 vote on the Blackburn/Cantwell amendment to strike a proposed 10-year ban on state regulation of AI, the Human Artistry Campaign issued the following statement:

Chatbot, Are We Cooked? It’s too damn hot, and Big Tech is turning up the heat.

In today's newsletter, @hannahstoryb.bsky.social wrote about the heat dome trapping much of the country, the AI industry turning up the heat, and how undeterred voters in New York City showed what can still be accomplished within the harsh parameters of our unequal, fast-warming world.

Most AI researchers reject free use of public data to train AI models - Impact of Social Sciences Cian O’Donovan finds most AI researchers oppose companies using public data for AI training, as creatives protest and tensions grow between policy, industry and public expectations.

“A global survey found that only one in four respondents believe AI companies should be allowed to train their models on any publicly available text or images. The majority favour more restrictive approaches, including the requirement for explicit permission from content creators.” bit.ly/3ZNOWuG

International Coalition Of Worker Unions Declares Emergency Over AI Use In Animation Over two dozen entertainment unions in Europe and North America are calling for action to prevent artificial intelligence from taking over the animation industry.

Animation workers' unions call on lawmakers "to fight for culture and art and the value it provides" and to pass legislation to protect workers whose livihoods are at risk from widespread, irresponsible gen AI use www.cartoonbrew.com/artist-right...

Country icon Martina McBride testified before Congress in support of the NO FAKES Act, which would protect us all from nonconsensual AI deepfakes & voice clones. Join us & tell your reps to support NO FAKES! p2a.co/fCscPAf

Joseph Gordon-Levitt: "Not a punk rock thing" to use artists' work to train AI for free "What really happens if you don't pay artists is not a punk rock thing," the actor said.

"I'd love to be like a pure punk rock artist and be like, art isn't about the money. But what really happens if you don't pay artists is not a punk rock thing. What happens is all the biggest corporate giants just own & control everything." www.axios.com/2025/06/04/j...

Elton John Warns U.K. Government ‘We Will Not Back Down’ Over AI Bill at Billboard’s Global Power Players Event: Read His Full Speech Elton John spoke at Billboard's Global Power Player event in London and called upon the British government to scrap its controversial AI bill.

In his acceptance speech for Billboard's Creators’ Champion Award in London, megastar @eltonofficial had a clear message for the UK government and its polarizing AI bill:

“We will not back down and we will not go away quietly. This is just the beginning.” www.billboard.com/pro/elton-jo...

Meta has almost $78 billion cash on hand. One could, idk, pay to license things. Just a thought.