I was an artist since I was 15, since that age I started selling paid commissions. I was fairly known for my art style, used to get about 8k to 12k per month and lived off that, I’m physically disabled so finding jobs is difficult and remote jobs are mostly unknown in my small city. AI took my job last year, commissions stopped coming, clients that commissioned me plenty times were posting AI generated images on their profiles, haters made an AI with my exact art style when I posted against it on social media. Today I only make 2k to 4k on a good month. I deleted my social media and started working on a local shop that makes shirt designs, as well as working with logo design by myself. It’s not even close to what I used to do, but I guess money os money. My mother was close to me during all this crisis, she asked me many times why I stopped drawing and I told her why again and again. Today she asked me to generate one of those studio ghibli images for her, I told her I wasn’t gonna do it, that’s the kind of stuff that stole my job and I don’t wanna personally see the results. I sent her a tutorial on how to do if she still wants it so bad, but I personally won’t. She got pissed and told me to grow up, that my old job wasn’t her problem and she needed that image right now. I told her she didn’t, she would live and she could do one by herself. It seems this spread and my aunt is telling me to work with AI instead of denying it’s existence. This is so tiring, why would I work with something that crushed my dreams? I know no one cares about what I’ve been through, but I at least expected some decency of not asking me to work with it.
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Tell your relatives that not only is AI crushing creative jobs it’s horrible for the planet. Ask them if they enjoy clean water. Seriously all these laws protecting the planet are being rolled back for this stupid technology no one wants. I’m sorry your mom doesn’t understand she needs to educate herself. Can only imagine how Miyazaki feels about AI.
I’m glad you stood your ground.
I’m all for using AI to do my dishes or laundry someday but not write fiction or create art… cripes
Sorry friend… I do hope you continue making art and I hope you find a solution to your finances
I hear you loud and clear. AI’s infecting the two industries I’m most qualified and experienced to work in and it’s disheartening at best and terrifying at worst. I think things will loop back around at some point and people on a larger scale will choose human-created work again but for now we just seem to have to ride the wave.
I’m really sorry about that and I do hope things pick up for you again ASAP. People will get bored of current AI trends soon, its just a novely for the average joe right now. Also I’m proud of you for sticking up for yourself and not giving in to your mum.
ETA: being told to “just work with AI instead of denying its existence” is so bloody annoying and I’m sick of hearing it too!
Sounds to me like your mother is the one who needs to “grow up” and treat you with respect.
Also, I’m sorry this happened to you. I’m against AI art because AI is supposed to be used for stuff like making pasta noodles, looking for cancer cells that humans would never see, ect; it’s not supposed to be used to take the humanism out of art. AI is supposed to give us more time so we can actually focus on things like making art!! Where is the love of the human who created the art without the human creating?
Anyways, I do wish you the best. I’m glad you stood your ground and didn’t generate the image she “needed” for her. If she wants her AI art slop, I say let her figure it out herself.
Also, I am still hopeful for all the artists like yourself out there. I personally believe that AI art is going to start becoming so trite that eventually people are going to largely abandon it for purposes like this. As for myself, I make it a personal mission to seek out artists I know/met/have been referred to for anything artsy I need that I can’t do myself. I know that I’m not alone in this, either. There’s people out there who still care about the time and skill of the artist 💙
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