# Why We’re Banning AI

> Current Affairs bans AI-generated content to protect human creativity.
- Title: Why We’re Banning AI · Currentaffairs | Shortify
- Summary: Current Affairs bans AI-generated content to protect human creativity. Current Affairs commits to 100% human-written articles and art to counter AI-driven…
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- Source: Currentaffairs — https://currentaffairs.org/news/why-were-banning-ai
- Published: 2026-10-15T15:33:13+00:00
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- Topics: current affairs, ai, human creativity, publishing, union contract, print magazine, creative industries, media employment, technology, startups
## Current Affairs bans AI
Current Affairs commits to 100% human-written articles and illustrations.

> No text that is ai-generated may be published in our magazine. No ai-generated art may be used as a current affairs illustration
## Why ban AI?
Current Affairs wants to challenge media slopification by replacing writers with ai.

> Newsrooms across the country are rushing to embrace ai and replace actual writers, public opinion be damned
## AI in publishing
Business Insider and Sports Illustrated have published ai-generated content.

> The ceo of business insider has said his publication is 'all in on ai'
## AI's impact
Creative industries lost over 200,000 jobs in four years due to ai.

> Futurism reports that despite the common narrative that ai has not led to major job loss, creative industries are being 'eviscerated' by ai
## AI training
AI models trained on stolen artists' work replace human creators.

> All of the ai models that are being used to replace artists were trained through the mass theft of those very same artists' work
## Current Affairs' approach
Current Affairs publishes handmade content after 62 print issues.

> Over 62 beautiful print issues, we have commissioned hundreds of original, handmade artworks from brilliant artists around the world
## Why handmade?
Current Affairs values physical media and human creativity.

> We started a print magazine in 2016. Nobody thought this was a good idea
## Human vs AI
AI replaces workers but doesn't help creators.

> The developers of ai don't see it as an asset for workers, but as a way to replace them
## Current Affairs' mission
Current Affairs shows human creativity is better media.

> We are not capitalists. There are no profits to be made here
## Call to action
Current Affairs needs your support to keep publishing.

> We need your help to keep putting out this handmade magazine. Subscribe or donate today
## What happens next
Current Affairs will continue human-driven publishing despite industry trends.

> We are going to keep paying human artists to create elaborate, gorgeous works of handmade art
## Key takeaway

Current Affairs commits to 100% human-written articles and art to counter AI-driven media decline.