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Joanna Woronkowicz, Associate Professor of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University

We studied what happened when financially struggling artists received $1,000 a month, no strings attached, for 18 months

A few commissions, contracts or cancellations can dramatically change an artist's annual earnings. Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post via Getty Images

Though artificial intelligence is making it easier than ever to produce images, music and text, the technology is also making it harder for the people who have traditionally produced this work to earn a living.

A photographer who once was commissioned to make art for an advertising campaign is now competing with graphics produced by the AI image generator Midjourney. A novelist who used to make money on the side as a technical writer is seeing that work be replaced by a series of prompts in ChatGPT.

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