If anything, it legitimizes the sale of AI art on Etsy, making it even harder for the platform to introduce policies that keep its image as an artisanal marketplace alive in the future. A ban on ...

Etsy is fine with you selling AI art, but doesn't want you to sell the AI prompts you used to make said AI art. The online marketplace, established in 2005 for artists and small businesses to sell ...

Of course, with the advent of Artificial Intelligence, it's increasingly difficult to know what is or is not an original work of art on Etsy, and with AI advancing at an astonishing rate ...

Etsy has received considerable backlash in recent years for accepting AI art, due to its impact on more traditional artists. AI tools are capable of mimicking artists’ styles to generate artwork.

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The Etsy seller and clip-art designer Jane Cide told me she wasn’t surprised at all that Etsy was allowing AI art. “It is a platform for making money, and AI is making a lot of money right now ...

A yarn-woven Garfield, a highland cow and a baby dragon are just some of the cute plush items displayed in the Etsy stores of crochet-pattern merchants. But shoppers at the online store, which ...