Dutch far-right party pays damages to court artist after changing image with AI
<p>Geert Wilders’ PVV altered sketch of jailed Syrian brothers to make them look more menacing</p><p>A Dutch court artist has received damages after an MP for the far-right Party for Freedom (PVV) used one of her drawings without permission and manipulated it with AI to make the subjects look more menacing.</p><p>Petra Urban, a court artist for 19 years, was shocked to discover a drawing she had made last year of two Syrian brothers <a href="https://nos.nl/artikel/2597057-celstraf-van-30-jaar-voor-vader-vermoorde-ryan-18-20-jaar-cel-voor-broers">jailed</a> for the murder of their sister had been reworked and used in a video on Instagram and Facebook by the party’s Noord-Brabant region.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/13/geert-wilders-pvv-dutch-far-right-party-damages-court-artist-change-image-ai">Continue reading...</a>
- alleges — Dutch far-right party pays damages to court artist after changing image with AI (witness: wire-ingest; citation: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/13/geert-wilders-pvv-dutch-far-right-party-damages-court-artist-change-image-ai; status: supported)
- alleges — url: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/13/geert-wilders-pvv-dutch-far-right-party-damages-court-artist-change-image-ai (witness: wire-ingest; citation: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/13/geert-wilders-pvv-dutch-far-right-party-damages-court-artist-change-image-ai; status: supported)
- alleges — summary: <p>Geert Wilders’ PVV altered sketch of jailed Syrian brothers to make them look more menacing</p><p>A Dutch court artist has received damages after an MP for the far-right Party for Freedom (PVV) used one of her drawings without permission and manipulated it with AI to make the subjects look more menacing.</p><p>Petra Urban, a court artist for 19 years, was shocked to discover a drawing she had made last year of two Syrian brothers <a href="https://nos.nl/artikel/2597057-celstraf-van-30-jaar-voor-vader-vermoorde-ryan-18-20-jaar-cel-voor-broers">jailed</a> for the murder of their sister had been reworked and used in a video on Instagram and Facebook by the party’s Noord-Brabant region.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/13/geert-wilders-pvv-dutch-far-right-party-damages-court-artist-change-image-ai">Continue reading...</a> (witness: wire-ingest; citation: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/13/geert-wilders-pvv-dutch-far-right-party-damages-court-artist-change-image-ai; status: supported)
- alleges — published: Sat, 13 Jun 2026 04:00:04 GMT (witness: wire-ingest; citation: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/13/geert-wilders-pvv-dutch-far-right-party-damages-court-artist-change-image-ai; status: supported)