Fraud, theft, and deception in the NFT and AI art world. We're collecting the stories that need to be told.
Share Your StoryWhen the art world went digital, nobody wrote the rules. This book is a narrative nonfiction account of what happened next — the theft, the fraud, the celebrity scandals, the AI war, and the legal reckoning still unfolding.
From a dying artist whose work was stolen by strangers to 86,000 forgeries on a single platform, from billion-dollar celebrity endorsement pipelines to five billion images scraped without consent — these stories have never been assembled in one place.
Behind every case is a person. If you've experienced digital art theft, NFT fraud, AI scraping of your work, or any form of digital creative exploitation, your account could be part of this book. Every story strengthens the record.
The book covers six major categories. If your experience falls into any of these areas, we want to hear from you. Have a story that doesn't fit neatly into a category? We want to hear that too.
Work minted or sold as NFTs without consent, mass forgery, scraped artwork
Phishing, rug pulls, fake collections, wallet hacks, ransom schemes
Work scraped into AI datasets, style replication, unconsented training data use
Trademark infringement, unauthorized licensing, destruction rights claims
Undisclosed promotions, pump-and-dump patterns, coordinated endorsements
Marketplaces enabling theft, inadequate takedown processes, dark patterns
If you've experienced or witnessed a digital art crime, your story could help build the most comprehensive account of this era. All submissions are confidential.