Artists Resisting Exploitation (ARE)

Sign in Subscribe

News

Photo of a double rainbow in a cloudy sky

A Love Letter for Artists Who Have Considered Suicide/Against Fake rAInbows or Performative Allyship

Photo of power lines and poles on street with dusky pink evening backdrop, treetops, and moon on lower right

SMRs and AI as the New ‘Pump and Dump’: Hyped, Extractive, Exploitative, and Toxic

Photo of large, all black, wide-screen TV, with black keyboard, mouse, and mousepad on narrow glass table against white wall

Wasting Time: How Corporations Mastered the Science of Exploiting Creatives

Gray and brown cat inside a paper grocery bag on a dark wood floor with a light wood background

The Case for Model Disgorgement: Why AI “Art” Is Not Transformative

14 arts advocates, some with signs supporting arts workers, flank State Senator Nancy Skinner’s policy advisor Robert Gammon

Generative AI: Accelerating (Not Mitigating) Climate Change

Photo of Golden Gate Bridge on sunny day with water in foreground, buildings in lower right, hills and clouds in background.

The Backwardness of Generative AI: Making Exploitation Cool Again