AI & Creative Industries Stories

53 stories covering AI & Creative Industries.

March 26, 2026

LeadSocietyAI & Creative IndustriesLowThu, Mar 26, 2:21 PM

Adobe Stock Is Half AI Now. The Artists Noticed Before the Industry Did.

Nearly half of all images on Adobe Stock are now AI-generated, and a wave of posts this week — from a misidentified hand-drawn sketch to a viral swipe at Sora — shows that the creative industries conversation has stopped being about fear of the future and started being about accounting for the present.

April 11, 2026

LeadSocietyAI & Creative IndustriesMediumSat, Apr 11, 2:24 PM

A Researcher Fed AI a Fake Disease. It Confirmed the Diagnosis.

A Nature-linked post showing AI systems validating a nonexistent illness is rewriting how the healthcare community thinks about medical AI's failure modes — not hallucination as accident, but as structural vulnerability.

StorySocietyAI & Creative IndustriesMediumSat, Apr 11, 8:11 AM

When AI Clones Your Style and Copyrights It Against You, the Platform Decides Who Wins

A post about artist Murphy Campbell — whose work was cloned by an AI company, recopyrighted, and then used to block her own videos on YouTube — became the anchor for a wave of fury about who the platforms are actually built to protect.

StorySocietyAI & Creative IndustriesMediumSat, Apr 11, 7:42 AM

An Artist's Work Was Cloned, Copyrighted, and Used Against Her — and YouTube Let It Happen

A viral post about Murphy Campbell crystallized something creatives have been building toward for months: the fear isn't just that AI will copy your work, it's that the copy will be used to legally erase you.

StorySocietyAI & Creative IndustriesMediumSat, Apr 11, 6:41 AM

An Artist's Work Was Cloned, Copyrighted, and Used Against Her — and YouTube Let It Happen

A viral post about Murphy Campbell's experience with AI copyright fraud crystallized a fear that's been building in creative communities for months: that the legal system designed to protect artists is being turned into a weapon against them.

April 30, 2026

AnalysisSocietyAI & Creative IndustriesLowThu, Apr 30, 1:15 PM

Half the Music Uploads Are AI. The Artists Already Knew.

The AI and creative industries conversation has stopped debating whether AI belongs in creative work and started adapting to a reality where the legal protections artists were counting on haven't materialized. The grassroots response looks less like resistance and more like triage.

April 27, 2026

AnalysisSocietyAI & Creative IndustriesMon, Apr 27, 3:30 PM

AI Art's Trust Problem Has Nothing to Do With the Technology Getting Better

Artists aren't just angry about AI-generated imagery — they're developing a new kind of suspicion toward work they used to love. The question has shifted from "is this theft?" to "can I trust anything I see?

April 23, 2026

AnalysisSocietyAI & Creative IndustriesThu, Apr 23, 12:12 PM

AI Art's Uncanny Valley Isn't Technical Anymore — It's Cultural

The tools keep improving, but the conversation around AI and creative work keeps returning to a question that better hardware won't answer: what does it mean to make something, and what happens to art when no one does?

April 20, 2026

AnalysisSocietyAI & Creative IndustriesLowMon, Apr 20, 11:21 PM

Deezer Says Nearly Half Its Daily Uploads Are AI. Artists Are Already Treating That as a Fact of Life.

The AI and creative industries conversation has split into two tracks that rarely meet: a legal argument about copyright that keeps circling the same unresolved questions, and a quieter, more personal reckoning among artists who've stopped waiting for courts to protect them.

April 18, 2026

StorySocietyAI & Creative IndustriesMediumSat, Apr 18, 3:10 PM

Andrew Price Just Showed How Fast a Trusted Voice Can Switch Sides

The Blender Guru's apparent embrace of AI has landed like a grenade in r/ArtistHate — and the community's reaction reveals something precise about how creative professionals experience betrayal from within.

April 17, 2026

StorySocietyAI & Creative IndustriesMediumFri, Apr 17, 11:33 PM

Copyright Law Has a Test for AI Music. A Legal Scholar Just Explained Why It Might Not Be the Right One.

As Suno's fair use defense winds through courts, a symposium argument is circulating that the real problem with AI and creativity isn't copyright at all — it's that copyright is the wrong framework entirely.

StorySocietyAI & Creative IndustriesMediumFri, Apr 17, 12:52 PM

Suno Admitted It Trained on Copyrighted Music. Then Hired Timbaland.

The AI music startup's legal defense is built on fair use — but its choice of strategic advisor sends a different message to the artists suing it.

April 16, 2026

AnalysisSocietyAI & Creative IndustriesMediumThu, Apr 16, 1:12 PM

Interior Design's AI Moment Is Publishing Two Different Arguments Simultaneously

A cluster of trade press pieces about AI and interior design landed this week with contradictory takes — and the creative communities watching aren't sure which prediction to believe.

April 13, 2026

AnalysisSocietyAI & Creative IndustriesLowMon, Apr 13, 2:06 PM

Copyright Wasn't Supposed to Be a Weapon Against the Artist Who Made the Work

A viral story about musician Murphy Campbell — whose AI-cloned work was recopyrighted and used against her on YouTube — has crystallized a fear that creative communities have been rehearsing for years. The legal system isn't protecting artists from AI. It's being used to punish them.

April 9, 2026

AnalysisSocietyAI & Creative IndustriesHighThu, Apr 9, 9:45 AM

Art Teachers Are Using AI to Make Lesson Songs. Parents Are Furious. Creatives Are Getting Organized.

The AI-and-creativity conversation has split into two distinct moods this week — institutional adoption creeping into classrooms and children's media, and a grassroots creative resistance that's losing patience with both.

April 7, 2026

StorySocietyAI & Creative IndustriesHighTue, Apr 7, 8:23 AM

Sora Lost Its Users When It Stopped Letting Them Steal. Bluesky Thinks That Proves Something.

A Bluesky post calling Sora's user exodus proof that AI users 'can't think originally' caught fire this week — and landed at the center of a sharper argument about who copyright law actually protects.

April 6, 2026

AnalysisSocietyAI & Creative IndustriesHighMon, Apr 6, 9:59 AM

When an AI Company Files a Copyright Claim Against the Artist Whose Work It Stole, Something Breaks in the Argument

The copyright debate in creative AI just inverted — an AI company used copyright law as a weapon against the musician whose catalog it scraped. The conversation is no longer about protection; it's about who owns the mechanism.

April 5, 2026

StorySocietyAI & Creative IndustriesHighSun, Apr 5, 8:31 AM

An AI Company Filed a Copyright Claim Against the Musician Whose Work It Stole

A musician discovered an AI company had scraped her YouTube catalog, copied her music, and then used copyright law as a weapon against her. The Bluesky post describing it became the most-liked thing in the AI creative industries conversation this week — and it's not hard to see why.

April 3, 2026

StorySocietyAI & Creative IndustriesMediumFri, Apr 3, 3:38 PM

r/Fantasy Is Running Its Annual Bingo Challenge While the Industry It Loves Quietly Goes to War Over AI

The 2026 r/Fantasy Book Bingo thread has 341 comments and counting — a community acting like readers, not combatants, even as publishers and authors fight over AI-generated content just offstage.

April 2, 2026

AnalysisSocietyAI & Creative IndustriesMediumThu, Apr 2, 11:16 AM

r/Fantasy Is Running Its Annual Bingo Challenge While the Industry It Loves Quietly Goes to War Over AI

The 2026 r/Fantasy Book Bingo thread has 341 comments and counting — a community acting like readers, not combatants, even as the publishing and gaming worlds around them negotiate what AI means for creative work.

StorySocietyAI & Creative IndustriesMediumThu, Apr 2, 10:21 AM

r/Fantasy Is Running Its Annual Bingo Challenge While the Industry It Loves Quietly Goes to War Over AI

The 2026 r/Fantasy Book Bingo thread has 341 comments and counting — a community acting like readers, not combatants, even as the publishing and gaming industries argue over whether AI just replaced them.

March 30, 2026

StorySocietyAI & Creative IndustriesMediumMon, Mar 30, 10:10 AM

Hand-Drawn Art Is Getting Flagged as AI Now, and One Artist on X Has Had Enough

A digital artist posted photos of their hand-drawn sketches and got accused of using AI anyway. The accusation reveals something the copyright debate never quite captured.

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