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this is Marketplace Tech, I'm Megan McCarty-Karino.

Publishers of books, magazines and their digital incarnations have long hired artists to

contribute unique visuals to their storytelling. It's the kind of work Molly Krabapple cut her

teeth on. Her illustrated journalism has been published by outlets like Vice, Rolling Stone and

The New York Times. But she fears the format faces an existential threat from artificial intelligence

image generators like Dolly and stable diffusion. Molly recently wrote an open letter about her

concerns in collaboration with the Center for Artistic Inquiry and Reporting.

Right now you can go into mid-journey or stability AI and you can type in street in New York City

drawn by Molly Krabapple and you can get something that looks like a crazy robot knockoff

of the style that I spent my life developing. This isn't just something that people are doing

as a hobby for fun. Right now, tons of big places are using AI-generated images because they're

just impossibly cheap and fast. For instance, Al Jazeera started using AI to make these very

mediocre comics about various parts of Middle Eastern history and they look terrible. They're

soulless but they're still just good enough to fill the space that a real artist would have

formerly gotten paid to fill. You are a well-known artist that, well known enough to have been

encoded in these tools, have you sort of seen your art impacted by this technology yet?

I'm really lucky. I am in a pretty good position in the illustration world. However,

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