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There’s a lot of truth in that! I cannot tell you how many times I’ve designed and illustrated every single aspect of a commercial illustration only to have the agency credit everyone in their office, but not me… 🥲

Right!? Also, I just wanted to let you know that THIS MORNING my son showed me a Betty and the Yeti strip, because he thought seeing Yeti eat out of a bin would make me laugh - and he was right!

A fever dream, but shit. My daughter is constantly making art, and passionate about it too, so my hope is that this AI rubbish runs a course straight into the ground.

Yes! It really doesn't help that the current slew of generative LLM models are being wrapped up as "computers are conscious now!". It's intentionally duplicitous and I hate it.

When business finds out, people will take and eat recycled poop the first thing they try is "will you take even less?" It is all about standards. If we don't raise our from this it will get sillier even faster.

I think we all died and have ended up a Thomas Kinkade-riddled hell.

yeah, I suspect this is the difference between 'Good' and 'Cheap'

i am convinced the many modifications clients ask us to do are just a psyc power play " i paid , you are going to do what ever i want" mindset , which is lame

One of the mild upsides of AI image generation is that nightmare clients are selected out of the process Unfortunately, most of the paid work came from those shit clients

There was the same shift with the Advent of desktop computers with graphic design software. I worked on high-end print pieces with picky press checks and unreasonable demands, to have customers suddenly settle for much lower quality because someone from their office knew how to use MS publisher now.

also a bit of “this came out of my butt it must be perfect” even though they just typed a sentence

Mmm sish and cine

Looks like a pointy skateboard with a wizard staff lying across the top. Which is of course the kind of thing you embroider over the front of a button-up vest.

I love Sish & Cinema Friday.

Guy with the ship on his vest is about to be murdered by chubby Joker.

Exactly. I've been wanting to check them out for a while as they have a seafood restaurant too but fuck em.

Now that's actually an idea that might make me a lot more willing to do what they ask, too. Shows the real people behind the small businesses like we are investing into their lives. Because soulless stuff usually makes me think about corporations, not "the little guy who works hard"

Support local businesses.....except artists, because sod them I guess.

Ugggh... I've seen so many small businesses do this, always with the explanation of "we don't have any money!". All of which is horribly tied into the idea that creative labour is somehow intangible, so cannot hold value.

The intersection of creativity and capitalism runs into the speed bumps of ego

Oh, okay, this one in particular makes me feral with rage

A lot of people in charge would get fired in a few days if they actually had to be directly accountable for their work. At least half of upper management in the US is a good ol'boys club that contributes zero or negative value to their organization.

Hard to disagree. Just look around. Our leaders go through the motions at these COP conferences every year but nothing happens. They’re humoring us only. The leaders we’ve elected can’t ensure our planet remains habitable by humans. If we’ve given up on that, what is left?

I think we just experienced what builders did when we went from artesanal building to mass construction.

I think this aspect probably counts for something.

Good god I wish this was true

One of my work colleagues is torturing me with "music" he is making with AI TBF, there is a lot of stuff on the radio that's equally shitty and generic...

I’ve experienced this a lot, and for me it perfectly illustrates how they will drop artists as soon as the tech makes it viable for the required end result.

Yep, I've been getting this more and more the last two years. They project SO much onto their terrible AI creations. That and it has eroded any sense of true timescale when making something functional 😔

Oh jeez, absolutely. You see some of these people claiming that their prompting skills make them as much as an artist as anyone else. No. You’re not an artist. You’re a client. Now you’re just yelling at a machine to make what you want instead of a person.

It's like people who watch cooking shows criticizing the chef while eating fast food. When the responsibility of making a good product relies on them, the standards are suddenly lower.

I honestly think there's something to it. A bit like how listening to people talk about their dreams/horoscope/running routine can be soul-destroyingly dull but certain people think that when THEY do it, it must be interesting...

It was never about the art, it was always about control. I worked in advertising bringing in clients for years, and most of the times the client wants to feel "in control", as if they had some say in it. With AI, they can pretend like they did the whole thing

Silver lining : that means they know that shit can never do anything remotely as good as you can. Still an asshole move

Oh, I'm sure this doesn't happen, right? RIGHT? Finding out you've been an asshole... Maybe some will learn from this. Maybe. But I doubt it.

the slop era

I just wish I could give u a hug man. It sucks so much

its been mindblowing seeing the kind of thing that even big corporate marketing campaigns are willing to call "finished", stuff that would get a visual artist of any stripe fired from a project and never considered again

The main difference, is that their end clients weren't happy, so they came back to me. I don't know if that's going to happen here...