Current Affairs Bans AI-Generated Text and Art Under New Union Contract

Current Affairs, a New Orleans-based print magazine founded in 2016, has adopted what it calls one of the strictest anti-AI policies in publishing: no AI-generated text or illustrations will appear in the magazine. The policy was written into a new union contract. The magazine, which has published 62 print issues and commissioned hundreds of original artworks, frames the ban as a direct challenge to what it terms the ‘slopification of media,’ citing examples including Sports Illustrated publishing AI-written pieces attributed to nonexistent journalists and the Wall Street Journal defending an AI-generated op-ed by hedge fund billionaire Stan Druckenmiller.