07/06/2026
Real life artists everywhere are having their work, their intellectual property, and their livelihoods stolen by AI.
And it's not just being used to steal from artists.
It can fool the general population through propaganda to push divisive agendas.
It can pretend to be a person you can talk to on a dating site, or who posts or comments rage-bait.
It can take the photos you post of yourself, and of your children, and can do unimaginably awful stuff with it...
But AI and bot accounts are just the tool that makes it easier for unscrupulous humans to fool you, scam you, persuade you, divide you... AI is making humans more lazy, more stupid, more gullible, more undiscerning....
Look out particularly for accounts and posts that:
- Plays on your emotions; eg "my shop is closing down" or "my daughter makes these and she had so many hateful comments"...
- Drives hate and division
- Tries to sell or show you a product that looks to good to be true (I've particularly seen the rise and evolution of this in the crystal and mineral world)
What you can do about it:
- Learn how to spot AI
- Use your discernment
- Report accounts you know to be fake
- Don't believe everything you see, hear or read
- Be vigilant to the fact that it is everywhere online and you could be looking at it at any time
- Follow, support and interact with small business accounts of your friends and people you know❤️❤️
*IMPORTANT POST*
I DID NOT GENERATE THIS IMAGE - F**K GENERATIVE AI!
Angry emojis only please: 😠 😡 👿
(don't you dare 'like' this image, I will put wasps in your sock drawers, you have been warned! Love you byeeee)
Please read 💙
This image is doing the rounds it seems!
Someone has fed a photograph of my work (bottom right of the image is my actual work, everything else is trained from that image) into AI and asked it to show their own w.i.p images to prove they make them.
This is where we're at.
(By 'someone' I mean a HUGE page with a half a million following, likely entirely run by AI bots so the best you can do is argue with a computer programme about ethics, a fools errand)
I've found it on three sites so far.
I've woken up to a slew of messages;
Jen, heads up, this is based on your work right?
(To the folks who did this, Thank You, I'm so grateful, I can't fight it if I don't see it, you are stars)
But then...
Jen, I'm so dissappointed.
I didn't know you used AI to design your work?
Jenna, why are you using AI?
I won't be buying from you again.
Last time my work was stolen I had people who'd been ripped off by a computer, angrily come to me to demand refunds & Facebook took action by blocking me from my own page and leaving all the scam pages up.
This image takes it a step further and for me, ultimately a step too far.
It directly effects my reputation as an artist and at some point I have to draw a line.
To be frank, I've reached a point where I don't know if I can continue to use this platform.
I'm going to be exploring using my Ko-fi or Substack more going forward.
I know this will inevitably dissappoint some people but I'll try to do it in such a way that no-one who wants to come along is left behind and I'll still have a small presence here for a while yet.
It's no easy move.
Bottom line - Facebook and Meta could care less.
Artists are being demonetized, deplatformed and their entire careers being bought into disrepute at the 'harmless' push of a button on the daily now with no safety net or support framework.
Just an AI system that always sides with, surprisingly, defending the use of AI images and bot run pages.
This image is the exact reason why you'll see people like myself calling out anyone for using Generative AI for posters, ideas, advertising etc.
AI image generators are literally stealing our work and reputations, I urge anyone to please stop defending it, stop using it, stop viewing it as 'just a bit of harmless fun' and for the love of all that is holy, stop using it to make generic posters for your events and loosing any ounce of what makes your event unique or worth going to.
Instead consider joining us in calling it out when you see it.
All that will be left on Meta is AI slop and propoganda whilst all the real humans go elsewhere in search of something real...when I get there I'll pop the kettle on and invite you all round for tea 🙏✨️
Jen x
