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alaska college student arrested for eating ai artwork interview 1234770750

University of Alaska Fairbanks student Graham Granger was arrested for tearing up and eating Polaroids from an AI-generated artwork by Nick Dwyer in an MFA exhibition, causing less than $250 in damage. Granger, charged with criminal mischief, described the act as a protest against the school's AI policy and a performance art piece, while Dwyer rejected the explanation and likened it to vandalism.

alaska art student arrested eating ai generated art protest 1234770081

A University of Alaska Fairbanks undergraduate, Graham Granger, was arrested for eating AI-generated artwork created by MFA student Nick Dwyer. The artwork, titled *Shadow Searching: ChatGPT psychosis* (2025), was part of the exhibition “This Is Not Awful” at the UAF Art Gallery. Granger allegedly destroyed at least 57 of 160 Polaroid-style images in protest of AI-generated art, and was charged with criminal mischief, a class B misdemeanor.