Here is a number worth sitting with: the generative AI art market is projected to exceed $2.5 billion by 2029. And yet the foundation beneath it is, at best, legally contested and culturally narrow. At worst, it is quietly doing harm to the artists, communities, and creative traditions that made it possible. I spent the last few weeks writing an academic paper on this for my postgraduate module in Emerging Technologies at TU Dublin. What started as a literature review turned