"Let's keep making art with a soul”: artists fight back against AI action figure trend

Illustrators launch fightback against AI dolls with #StarterPackNoAI trend

Illustration by Sunny Wu As AI-generated dolls flood social media, illustrators are reclaiming our creative spaces with hand-drawn alternatives that celebrate human artistry instead. If you've glanced at social media recently, you've probably seen a bizarre trend of people making images of action figures and dolls of themselves using ChatGPT's image generator. These digital creations—which depict you as a plastic-packaged toy, complete with acce…

Mac Kay: Rowan promotes AI—but what about its real artists?

On Friday, April 11, I woke up to a post on Rowan University’s Instagram of two AI-generated action figures of our mascot Whoo RU, and our president Ali Houshmand. The caption encouraged people to create their own action figures using ChatGPT, with an exact template on what they should do. Once I started to scroll through my Instagram, I saw many other brands, public figures, and friends using AI to create a model of an action figure that depict…

"Let's keep making art with a soul”: artists fight back against AI action figure trend

#starterpacknoAI is taking over Instagram.