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Accessibility or Exploitation? The Disabled Identity, Art, and AI

October 4, 2025October 4, 2025 Ellah Fessenden

  Plenty of artists have spoken out about AI “art” and the use of artists’ works—written and visual—to train AI models without the creators’ permission. It’s a tired topic at this point, and it is quite often met with the same counterargument: “What about disabled people? AI makes art accessible.“

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Help or Harm? The Ethics of Mark Laita and Soft White Underbelly

October 4, 2025 Andrew Esteverena

65 year old Mark Laita operates a documentary and interview style Youtube channel known as “Soft White Underbelly” where he has been producing videos for the past decade. His channel features people who are in extremely bad situations. Laita interviews drug addicts, gang members, prostitutes, convicts, and homeless people among

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When Machines Make Art: AI, Creativity, and the Exploitation of Artists

October 4, 2025 Aidan Owen

  AI-generated art has become one of the biggest debates in creative fields today. Platforms like DALLE, MidJourney, and Stable Diffusion allow anyone to type a few words and instantly create images that look like paintings, digital illustrations, or even movie storyboards. Now of course, this seems super exciting at

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