For Capital & Main from Los Angeles—Freelance artist Nancy Aguilar has been feeling threatened by the emergence of generative artificial intelligence programs that are encroaching on the livelihood of those in her industry. Also feeling threatened is college student and aspiring writer Katelyn Chang. With support from San Francisco-based nonprofit Youth Leadership Institute, where they’re fellows, Aguilar, 21, and Chang, 19, detail the contentious relationship between human creatives and AI in a new podcast series called “The Creative Code.”

Fresno, California-based Aguilar and Bay Area-based Chang say creatives have already seen serious economic harm from generative AI use. They’ve found case after case of copyright infringement, sometimes resulting in lawsuits, after a year of researching the topic.

Aguilar frames the problem this way: Generative AI chatbots have been competing with human creatives for work. Chang said she would not have imagined a search prompt using generative AI to “create a profound AI-generated image that could rival that of legendary artists” in 2022. “Today this is our reality,” she said.

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