Read a job listing demanding AI-free art, then saw the same studio selling AI prints

This local studio in Austin posted a call for artists that said no AI work, period. They made a whole thing about supporting human creativity. Then I found their Etsy shop and 3 of the 12 prints are obviously Midjourney, same telltale fingers and weird background mush. I messaged them asking about it and they deleted the listing and blocked me. If a studio that preaches against AI uses it secretly behind the scenes, what does that say about everyone else? Has anyone else caught a place doing this double standard?

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charles_coleman18d ago

Wait until you look at the fine print on those "support human creativity" calls. Most of those listings have a line buried in there that gives the studio full rights to whatever you submit, no payment unless they pick it. So they take your real art, use it to train their style, then flip Midjourney slop with your visual language in it. That's the real trick, they're not just hiding AI, they're using real artists as unpaid flavor for their prompts.