Chloe Rose
Art YouTuber
British art YouTuber (nearly a million subscribers) whose supply-testing channel turned consumer watchdog: her videos exposing AI-generated coloring books and AI-promoted craft kits argue the slop wave is defrauding buyers and pushing real artists out.
In her words
I will never understand people that say that AI artists are artists, or they’re the same as artists who actually make their artwork. I’m going to offend a lot of people by saying this, but AI is what has destroyed Etsy.
Real artists are getting pushed out. And the worst part of it all is these AI-generated coloring books are selling for the same price as hand-drawn ones. This is so messed up.
Biography
Chloe Rose is a self-taught British artist and YouTuber, based in the United States, whose channel Chloe Rose Art has grown to roughly 944,000 subscribers on unboxings, art-supply testing, and painting videos. She runs her own brush and supply brand, and is the author-illustrator of the hand-drawn activity book “Draw Your Own Adventure” (Page Street Publishing) — experience she cites when explaining how long honest craft actually takes.
The AI slop beat
From 2025 her product-testing format acquired a watchdog edge. “The Downfall Of Etsy.. I’m Disgusted.” (March 2025) traced how AI-generated print-on-demand patterns and automated storefronts had flooded a marketplace that was “supposed to be handmade.” “These FAKE AI Coloring Books Need To Stop.” (July 2025) documented AI coloring books on Amazon masquerading as hand-drawn — some even advertising “beautifully hand-drawn illustrations by our talented in-house artists” — noting that artists spend months or years on books now buried by five-second generations sold at the same price. In 2026 she began buying the AI-promoted craft kits clogging her feeds to show viewers what actually ships.
I hate when brands use AI to promote. I hate it. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not an AI hater. I think AI does definitely have a place in the world as long as we can make it more eco-friendly and it doesn’t keep taking away people’s jobs.
Her objection is grounded in provenance as much as commerce: AI “literally takes and uses images it finds online” from working artists, she told viewers — “taking art that it finds online from actual artists and smashing it together.” She refuses to buy AI-made goods even as video props, preferring to spend the money on “real artists,” and encourages her audience to research sellers and champion verifiably handmade work.
Where they stand in the war
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