Fed up with art theft T-shirt bots, artists have come up with an ingenious way to fight back
With new technology comes new ways to steal, and Twitter happens to be crawling with bots programmed to pick up on complimentary tweets and grab the material that has earned such praise like a maggot on rotting meat. It’ll be mere minutes before the algorithms find the art, convert it into a file and plaster all over actual T-shirts which you can buy, albeit at the expense of the artist whose livelihood depends on them not being taken advantage of like this by unscrupulous vendors.