Read this: This Alaska college student eats AI art for lunch

To him, the smash-and-stuff, impromptu protest that generated headlines around the world was a personal bit of performance art. “It’s a protest against the school’s AI policy specifically, and it’s performance art because I needed something that would elicit a reaction. So this could reach more people,” he says. “I wanted to bring this to the attention of the school as a whole. I really hadn’t expected this to go past the college campus.”

At a time when the U.S. government continues to weaponize the plagiarizing technology against its citizenry and marketing firms attempt to sell producers on something called “Tilly Norwood,” we’ve seen artists try to stand up to AI in the courts and through advocacy. However, this might be the first time we’ve seen consumption as a form of protest. In the interview, Granger explains why he has the urge to chew up and spit out Dwyer’s work and what about AI art is so offensive to him. To be clear, he didn’t swallow any of the art because that would damage the sanctity of his satire. AI doesn’t swallow other people’s work. “AI chews up and spits out art made by other people.”

He’s doing his part. Read the whole interview over at The Nation and make sure not to visit the art gallery on an empty stomach.