One artist recalled a client asking her to recreate an AI-generated reference image in her style. Another was told to “get over it” when she voiced hesitations about using generative technology. A motion graphic designer said he was certain he’d lose his job. An editorial cartoonist whose work is often political, based on his own upbringing in a dictatorship, observed that “AI has no history, it has no soul.” Still others said they embrace AI as…