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Generative artificial intelligence tools can now instantly produce images from text prompts.

It's neat tech, but could mean trouble for professional artists.

Yeah, because those AI tools make it really easy to just instantly rip off someone's style.

That's right.

Generative AI, which is trained on real people's work, can end up really hurting the

artist that enable its existence. But some have started fighting back with nifty technical tools of their own.

It turns out that the Pixel is mightier than the Sword.

I'm Rachel Feltman, a new member of the Science Quickly team. And I'm Lauren Leffer, contributing writer at Scientific American.

And you're listening to Scientific Americans Science Quickly podcast. So I have zero talent as a visual artist myself, but it seems like folks in that field have really been feeling the pressure from generative AI.

Absolutely.

Yeah, I've heard from friends who've had a harder time securing paid commissions

than ever before.

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