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Tom May

When the White House hijacks your work: what creatives can learn from Sabrina Carpenter's fight

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When pop princess Sabrina Carpenter discovered her voice soundtracking a White House video of immigration raids, her response was immediate: "This video is evil and disgusting." The video stayed up anyway.

For designers, illustrators, photographers, copywriters and artists of every stripe, this incident exposes an uncomfortable reality about creative work in the modern age: once it leaves your hands, controlling how it's used becomes extraordinarily difficult – with AI posing only one of the many threats.

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