Sigourney Schultz Wrote About AI’s Attack on Art

by | July 24, 2025

For Design Observer, Sigourney Schultz wrote about “what the rise of AI-generated “Ghibli-style” art means for the future of creative labor and artistic autonomy.” 

Schultz told Study Hall, “The piece is personal, rooted in my childhood growing up inside Pixar Animation Studios. I reflect on what is lost when images once shaped by care and slowness can now be generated and weaponized in seconds, in a moment shaped by surveillance, ICE, and simulation.” 

Schultz’s writing has appeared in HyperAllergic, Art in America, Carla, and other outlets. 

 

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