DMZ Co-hosts Ted Rall (from the Left) and Scott Stantis (from the Right) take aim at a new threat that may destroy editorial cartooning once and for all.

A year after The Baltimore Sun fired Pulitzer Prize-winning staff cartoonist Kevin “KAL” Kallaugher, the paper published an editorial cartoon created by unidentified staffers using generative AI tools, with a credit line that read “Produced using artificial intelligence tools by The Baltimore Sun editorial staff.”

Ted Rall wrote a column calling the episode a watershed moment in the decline of the profession.

Guest Rick McKee, longtime Augusta Chronicle cartoonist and creator of the syndicated panel Pluggers, joins to discuss what the Sun’s experiment means on the ground: how AI slop undercuts rates, how it floods the market with uncr ...