i don’t even know anyone or anyone.

You don’t have to know the person to reach out!

Go to a book store, search online, lookup products, search for events, etc

Look up artwork of books, comics, albums, posters, events, flyers etc of stuff you like. Try to find the visual artist, see if they have a portfolio. Contact them discuss a price that might work for you.

Yes that is a good comparison. Similarly, indirect use of handcrafted or no gen ai is impossible to trace / verify / do. You can’t handcraft each component for every tool you will be using. Similarly, you can’t write your own library / compiler for every software component.

Such a label will indicate only on a high level, ‘that technology’ is not used. Which I think is fine.

You are right, but know that it can be hard for someone to judge claims.

And to answer OP: I’d say try to read qualitative, well established newspapers. They often have various overview articles and if you read articles from a couple of them then you should get a diverse view