AI Advocacy – Graphic Artists Guild Launches ‘No Artists, No Art’ Campaign

The Graphic Artists Guild has launched the “No Artists, No Art” campaign to publicize the need to protect visual artists’ rights in a generative AI environment. The campaign’s message is twofold:

  1. Without high-quality creative works to train on, generative AI will deliver poorer and poorer quality outputs.
  2. In order to have a robust generative AI economy, the rights of creators and copyright holders need to be protected.

Industry News Round-Up Week of 2/16/2026

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