ChatGPT has caused a massive drop in demand for online digital freelancers — here is what you can do to protect yourself
ChatGPT has caused a massive drop in demand for online digital freelancers — here is what you can do to protect yourself
You're not competing with AI, it's competing with you
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If they do, that means they don't take design seriously
The diploma mill MBAs that run the place don't know (or care) what good design is.
They only know how to look at business costs as "cutting into our profit".
Yeah, not a high-end business.
These days they're aware that good marketing & design = $$$.
I could not care less what low-end suits decide, they're not what brings designers money.
More "AI" garbage means that good designs will have an easier time crystalising.
Yeah, not a high-end business.
You are incredibly naive.
Nah, I've just been in the industry long enough to not be scared of competition. Quality is something that a lot of well-paying businesses very much appreciate.
A crappy visual generator is on-par with an intern, at best.
The people who are startled the most, probably have never actually done design large-scale.
Classic "fuck you got mine" take from someone who has experienced no difficulty in decades with a field. If you're ignoring the mass layoffs happening across multiple fields right now, ESPECIALLY in well-performing companies, I guess it looks like AI is not having much of an effect. Like if you consciously decide to not look at any business news at all this take could make sense.
My dude, I'm literally replying to a person who said "rip graphics designers". Of course I'm talking about my on field.
BTW, I have no problem with "fuck around and find out". Fuck those companies layinf off people because of LLMs. I'll watch them go down with a grin on my face and balls in my hand.
Not only are you a fool, you spit in the face of people trying to begin careers in your field because you are so naively confident that this massive change in the labor market conditions of your industry won’t affect you or other graphic designers negatively.
Please retire, change careers or at least keep your mouth shut and actually listen to less experienced people in your industry. Stop acting like a boomer, it is just embarrassing yourself and publicly committing your online identity to words that will age so terribly it will make your future self’s head spin.
You are fucking high on your own farts. Learn to generate garbage images if you're so scared, I don't give a shit.
I know how it works, since we're always hiring and looking for new talent.
I really don't care what a passer-by-AI-is-the-future rando thinks about me.
I'm talking from a perspective of reality. What you "predict" or "feel" or imagine the industry is or going to be, doesn't really interest me much.
I'm talking from a perspective of reality. What you "predict" or "feel" or imagine the industry is or going to be, doesn't really interest me much.
Damn... not sure how you work in an industry that requires good interpersonal skills with an attitude like this but you didn't really listen to what I was saying at all. I am not defending AI or even claiming it can actually replace human graphic designers in any serious fashion longterm.
Let me lay this out for you really simple, this is a class war, and vapid MBA majors who will always placed by the ruling class in charge of most graphic design jobs don't give a flying fuck if AI is a scam, the whole point of being a business major is to scam people. At the end of this when the AI hype bubble bursts most of yall aren't getting your jobs back, and even if you do those jobs will longer be the good quality sustainable jobs they used to be because you will be now seen as an expensive temporary stopgap to AI (independent of the reality of AIs inane bullshit), a temporary "return to using horses while we get cars figured out better" approach that never treats the horses as worthy of a future...
It is hilarious given that you are a storyteller and artist by trade that at this late stage in the game you actually genuinely believe the truth actually matters here compared to the overwhelming roar of economic narratives set by the ruling class....and yeah you mighttt personally get lucky and be fine for the rest of your career but how cruel and naive to use your experience as a device to divorce your empathy from less talented/experienced graphic designers fighting tooth and nail for the privilege to follow in your footsteps.
Stop being a coward and hiding behind the niche little square you have cut out of your industry to support yourself, stand up and actually defend the futures and quality of life of the countless younger versions of you getting ground to dust by the industry before it is too late and the decent future of your career is rationalized away to capitalists and the path you walked in life becomes a mocking foreclosed dream to the next generation.
Like wake the fuck up please, this is catastrophic for graphic designers and it has nothing to do with whether AI works or not
I disagree with the optinions stated in your reply.