Artists and Creatives Are Working with AI Companies, but Should They?

When Edmund Cartwright was at work creating the world’s first power loom at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, he sent a prototype of his machine to weavers in Manchester, which was, at the time, the center of England’s cloth production. Cartwright was hoping these weavers could help him improve his nascent invention. They refused.As recounted in Blood in the Machine, tech journalist Brian Merchant’s history of the Luddite movement, textile workers destroyed the machines an