New Yorker's AI Art Sparks Illustrator Backlash

The New Yorker's profile of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman features an unsettling AI-generated visual by David Szauder, depicting Altman surrounded by disembodied, distorted versions of his own face. The publication disclosed the AI-generated nature of the image, a detail likely to alarm many professional illustrators. The choice to use AI art for a story about an AI industry leader raises pointed questions about editorial decisions and the growing displacement of human artists in media.