SoCal artist says Trump administration used her fan art: 'I did not and would never consent'

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Set us as preferred Devin Elle Kurtz makes her opinion on generative AI known.For the last few years, the 29-year-old Pasadena artist says she’s been frustrated when strangers tell her that her art style looks AI-generated.

They have it backward, she insists.Kurtz, who has been sharing her art on the internet since she was a teenager, suspects that her viral art may have been used to train AI models.

Her Instagram bio reads, “NO AI,” alongside a circle-backslash emoji.Her feelings on the subject made what she discovered Thursday morning all the more painful, the artist said.Kurtz woke up to multiple emails from fans telling her that the Trump administration’s Department of Education had posted a meme on X that looked eerily similar to one of her works — fan art inspired by one of her favorite scenes from the animated series “Avatar: The Last Airbender.” In the work, Aang and Zuko are shown practicing fire-bending moves as two dragons move around them.There’s Magic in Learning ...