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Is AI the greatest art heist in history?

Is AI the greatest art heist in history?

New technologies of reproduction are plundering the art world – and getting away with itIn 2026, its easy to see why generative AI is bad. The internet has nicknamed its excretions “slop”. The CEOs of AI companies prance about on stage like supervillains, bragging that their products will eliminate vast swathes of work. Generative AI requires to feed its hideous data centres. Around the globe, chatbots induce and – all while .Who could have predicted this? Artists, that’s who.

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