The National Portrait Gallery is hosting AI portraits: how should artists respond?

A woman with dark hair tied back, wearing a pink vest over a white shirt, reaches up to touch a large, expressive sketch of a face on a canvas.

For those of us who work in the creative industries, the news that AI-generated portraits are now hanging in London's National Portrait Gallery might provoke a sinking feeling.

Haven't we been here before: a tech company swoops in, uses an artist's work to train a model, and takes the credit? It's a story that's played out across illustration, photography and graphic design, and the anger it's generated is typically justified.