AI dolls are taking over – but real artists are sick of them

AI dolls are taking over – but real artists are sick of them

Richard Irvine-Brown & Liv McMahon

BBC News

Wicked Joyful A man holding three home-made action figures. They look like real, professional packaged toys. The figures are all from movies - Eddie Murphy in The Golden Child, Bill Murray in The Life Aquatic, and Emilio Estevez in The Mighty Ducks.Wicked Joyful

These action figures may look like they were made by machine in a factory – but really they were hand-made

Artists and creatives are pushing back against a recent trend using artificial intelligence (AI) to generate “starter pack” images of people as toys – which they say may be in danger of risking their livelihoods.

Since the start of April, thousands of people have uploaded their photos to generate images of themselves as dolls, despite…

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