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AI art stole my cousin's commission, she's not mad about it
My cousin does fantasy book covers, and last week a client sent her an AI image to 'clean up' for $50 instead of paying her usual $400. She took it, fixed the hands, and said it's just another tool now. Is anyone else seeing freelance artists switch to fixing AI output instead of creating from scratch?
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amy_craig287d ago
The wild part is nobody's talking about what happens when the AI gets better at hands and feet. Like, give it another year or two and that cleanup job disappears too, so your cousin is basically training herself for a gig that's about to vanish. She's smart to take the $50 now, but it feels like she's learning to be a human patch for a machine that's improving daily. The real money might be in knowing how to prompt these things properly, not fixing their mistakes. That's the weird side effect of all this, the skill floor for art is dropping but the ceiling for knowing how to direct the tool is getting higher.
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