Artist sues AI meme generator for selling deeply personal comic as ad template
2026-07-27 · Ars Technica
An artist is suing an AI meme generator for scraping their deeply personal comic and reselling it as a generic ad template — because nothing says 'creative AI' like stripping all meaning from someone's art and slapping a brand logo on it. The AI company apparently couldn't be bothered to check whether their training data included copyrighted work being repurposed for profit.