Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock For artists, it’s bad enough that AI companies scraped their artwork without permission or compensation. In a saner age, we’d recognize that for what it is: theft. And it’s even worse that so-called AI “artists” glibly go out of their way to ape the specific style of an actual artist — all while sincerely believing they’re an “artist” themselves for merely typing a prompt. A new proposed