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Showing 28 profiles · 17 pro-AI · 11 anti-AI
Creative Software Giant
The company behind Photoshop bet its creative empire on generative AI: Firefly, trained on licensed Adobe Stock content and billed as “commercially safe,” is its answer to both the AI gold rush and the artist backlash.
AI Lab
The AI safety company that builds frontier models anyway. Founded by OpenAI defectors Dario and Daniela Amodei, Anthropic makes the Claude model family and argues the safest path through the AI transition is to build the technology carefully — not to stop.
AI Creative Tool
Open-source desktop “IDE for artists” for AI image and video creation. Built on the premise that artists need control, not slot machines — it turns prompting into crafting with 3D compositing, character posing, and scene blocking, and gives the source code away.
Professional Artists’ Portfolio Platform
The Epic Games–owned portfolio site for game and film artists that refused to ban AI images during the December 2022 “No AI Art” homepage protest, offering only an optional “NoAI” tag and keeping AI work welcome over its users’ objections.
Auction House
The 260-year-old auction house that sold the first AI artwork at auction in 2018 and pressed ahead with its all-AI “Augmented Intelligence” sale in 2025 despite an open letter from 6,500 artists demanding cancellation.
VFX YouTube Studio
Los Angeles VFX studio behind “Anime Rock, Paper, Scissors” (2023), the Stable Diffusion–powered AI anime that ignited a firestorm among animators — and whose founders Niko Pueringer and Sam Gorski defended and kept building AI filmmaking workflows.
Online Art Community
The 25-year-old art community that launched its own AI generator, DreamUp, in 2022 — igniting an artist revolt and a landmark lawsuit — then declared itself “100% right” to have embraced generative art.
AI Software Engineer
Cognition’s “AI software engineer” — the agent that plans, codes, debugs, and ships tasks end-to-end. Its 2024 debut demo defined the agentic-coding era, drew a viral backlash over inflated claims, and now anchors a company valued in the billions that acquired Windsurf.
Book Publisher
The News Corp-owned Big Five publisher struck a 2024 deal licensing select nonfiction backlist titles to Microsoft for AI training at $5,000 per book, split with authors — the first major trade publisher to sell its catalog to an AI company.
The lab that detonated the AI era. ChatGPT’s 2022 launch became the fastest-adopted consumer product in history, and with GPT models, DALL·E, and Sora, OpenAI sits at the center of nearly every fight in this archive — as inspiration, employer, defendant, and lightning rod.
Social News & Discussion Platform
The internet’s town square turned its two decades of human conversation into an AI asset — signing licensing deals with Google and OpenAI worth tens of millions a year, then suing Anthropic for taking the same data without paying.
AI Video Company
The startup that made AI video real: co-originator of the research behind Stable Diffusion, builder of the Gen video models, host of the AI Film Festival, and Hollywood’s first major AI partner via Lionsgate.
Stock Media Company
The stock-image giant that chose partnership over litigation: it licensed its library to OpenAI for DALL-E training, sells AI-generated images on its platform, and pays contributors through a first-of-its-kind fund.
Programmer Q&A Platform
The programmers’ Q&A site that first banned ChatGPT answers, then bet its future on AI — building OverflowAI and licensing its 15 years of community knowledge to OpenAI, even as AI assistants eroded the traffic that built it.
AI Music Company
The AI music generator that made whole songs from a text prompt — and made the music industry sue. Suno claims tens of millions of users making music “from shower-singers to seasoned artists,” and settled with the major labels on licensing terms in 2025.
Academic Publisher
The academic publishing giant sold Microsoft access to its scholarly content in a $10 million AI deal in 2024 — without consulting the researchers who wrote it — becoming the bellwether for AI licensing of academic research and the backlash it provokes.
Entertainment Conglomerate
Hollywood’s biggest IP holder is “bullish” on AI and uses it gladly — AI-powered park droids with Nvidia, a $1B OpenAI courtship, licensed character generation — while suing any AI company that touches its catalog without paying.
Anti-AI Art Platform
The artist portfolio and social platform founded by photographer Zhang Jingna that bans AI-generated imagery outright. When Meta began training AI on Instagram posts in June 2024, Cara exploded from 40,000 to more than 650,000 users in a week.
Visual Media Company
The world’s best-known stock photo agency, which sued Stability AI in the US and UK over the scraping of more than 12 million images — while simultaneously launching its own fully licensed AI image generator.
Indie Game Marketplace
The scrappy indie-game marketplace became one of the first storefronts to force generative-AI disclosure: since November 2024, untagged AI-made assets are de-indexed from its browse pages, citing “legal ambiguity” around AI content rights.
Crowdfunding Platform
The crowdfunding platform that suspended the Unstable Diffusion AI-image campaign in 2022 and imposed a mandatory AI-disclosure policy in 2023, requiring projects to prove consent for training data on pain of suspension.
Science Animation Studio
Munich-based science-animation giant (20M+ subscribers), founded by Philipp Dettmer, whose 2025 video “AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel” attacked the flood of AI-generated content and pledged the channel would stay made by humans, for humans.
Media Conglomerate
The Comcast-owned studio behind Universal Pictures and DreamWorks joined Disney as co-plaintiff in Hollywood’s first major AI copyright suit, calling Midjourney a “bottomless pit of plagiarism” over Minions and Shrek outputs — then sued MiniMax months later.
Video Game Company
The maker of Mario and Zelda told shareholders in 2024 that it is not using generative AI in its games, citing intellectual-property concerns and pledging to keep delivering value “unique to Nintendo” through human craft.
The world’s largest trade publisher amended the copyright page of all its books in 2024 to expressly prohibit their use for AI training — the first Big Five publisher to hard-code an anti-training reservation into every title.
Newspaper
America’s newspaper of record, whose December 2023 copyright suit against OpenAI and Microsoft is the defining media-versus-AI court case — even as the Times signs its own AI licensing deals, starting with Amazon.
Music Company
The world’s largest music company, which fired the industry’s first legal shots at AI — suing Anthropic over lyrics and joining the label suits against Suno and Udio — before pivoting to licensed AI platforms of its own.
The studio behind Superman and Batman filed its own copyright lawsuit against Midjourney in September 2025 — the third Hollywood major to do so — over AI images of its DC and Looney Tunes characters, calling the infringement “systematic” and “willful.”
