Opposition to training without permission, replication of a voice or likeness, and demands for labour protections should not be conflated with rejecting every AI tool. Begin with participants’ specific demands, then identify the model, platform, contract or institution they address. The cases below span regions and disciplines; they are comparative entry points, not a membership list for a unified movement.
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Source · Statement on AI training — Ed Newton-Rex ↗Related cases & evidence
These cases provide material for comparison and verification; no single source substantiates every claim in the guide.
ArtStation / NoAI ↗
This batch includes platform announcements on NoAI, content filtering, and anti-scraping measures; the protest’s beginning still requires evidence.
View full image ↗The anti-AI movement on ArtStation. Reproduced in Chen Haohao’s 2023 commentary.
Rights retained by original creators; reproduction source: Chen Haohao’s 2023 commentary
Source · Disco and AI: Is the Movement Against AI a New Luddism? ↗Statement on AI Training / Cross-disciplinary sign-on against unlicensed training ↗
Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.
View full image ↗Image published with “Statement on AI training — Ed Newton-Rex”. Its creation date is not inferred from the event date in this record.
Image source: Ed Newton-Rex; rights remain with the original rights holders.
Source · Statement on AI training — Ed Newton-Rex ↗SAG-AFTRA / Video-game performers’ labour dispute ↗
Collected events and documents are linked in the timeline; the case history remains under research.
View full image ↗SAG-AFTRA video game performers’ strike graphic, July 2024, preserved in contemporaneous coverage by 2x2.media.
SAG-AFTRA; reproduction source: 2x2.media
Source · SAG-AFTRA begins a strike against video game companies ↗Brazil’s Dublagem Viva / Dubbing and AI regulation ↗
Collected events and documents are linked in the timeline; the case history remains under research.
View full image ↗Public hearing on AI regulation in dubbing at Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies, 29 August 2024. Photograph by Bruno Spada.
Bruno Spada / Câmara dos Deputados
Source · Dubbing workers call for protection against unauthorised AI voice use ↗NOMORE Unauthorized Generative AI / Japanese voice actors’ video campaign ↗
Collected events and documents are linked in the timeline; the case history remains under research.
View full image ↗A montage of participating voice performers published on the NOMORE Unauthorised Generative AI campaign website.
NOMORE Unauthorised Generative AI campaign; rights retained by source
Source · NOMORE Unauthorised Generative AI campaign ↗Glaze / Defensive tool for artists ↗
Collected events and documents are linked in the timeline; the case history remains under research.
View full image ↗A work by Karla Ortiz shown on the Glaze project website as a Glazed example.
© Karla Ortiz; source: University of Chicago Glaze project
Source · Glaze: project description and examples ↗Nightshade / Defensive tool for creators ↗
Collected events and documents are linked in the timeline; the case history remains under research.
View full image ↗A treated work by Yujin Choo displayed as an example on the Nightshade project website.
© Yujin Choo; source: University of Chicago Nightshade project
Source · Nightshade: project description and examples ↗Procreate / Statement against introducing generative AI ↗
Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.
View full image ↗An image of digital drawing from Procreate’s statement against introducing generative AI.
Procreate / Savage Interactive; rights retained by source
Source · Procreate’s position on AI ↗IMPF and IMPEL publish principles for fair generative-AI licensing ↗
On 30 September 2026, IMPF and IMPEL proposed principles for generative-AI music licensing. They distinguish payments for past uses, training, generated outputs and future exploitation, and call for rightsholder involvement in scope and valuation. This is an industry negotiating framework, not a concluded collective licence or a statutory tariff.
Read the case, chronology & documents ↗Third Circuit affirms the ROSS copyright and fair-use ruling ↗
In case 25-2153, the Third Circuit affirmed the copyright and fair-use ruling concerning 2,243 Westlaw headnotes. The opinion records a filing date of 29 September 2026; the court’s public list records the case on 30 September. The dispute concerns protected summaries used for a competing legal-search system. The ROSS system at issue was not generative AI.
Read the case, chronology & documents ↗Original sources
Câmara dos Deputados · PT
Read original source ↗Câmara dos Deputados · PT
Read original source ↗Volunteer voice actors’ group · JA
Read original source ↗Glaze research team / USENIX · EN
Read original source ↗Shawn Shan and others / arXiv · EN
Read original source ↗United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · EN
Read original source ↗United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · EN
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Citation & methodology
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ANTI-AI ARCHIVE. Why do creators and cultural workers oppose or restrict AI?. https://salondesrefuses.cn/en/topics/anti-ai-events/guides/demands
Methodology & citation ↗