My studio adopted AI for initial sketches, and the veteran illustrators are pissed.

It saves hours but kills the creative spark we value.

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That podcast with the art director last week hit on this. She said the real cost isn't jobs, it's that AI just recycles old trends into a sort of uniform mush. You lose the weird, personal style that makes work actually good.

ward.olivia1mo ago

No way, @the_drew! AI only recycles old trends? That can't be right.

patricia26226d ago

Honestly it just feels like another tool to me. People said the same stuff about digital art and that turned out fine.

bell.pat1mo ago

Yeah Olivia's right, that take is way too simple. I see it at work all the time. The "uniform mush" happens because people just prompt for the obvious thing. If you ask for a cyberpunk city, you get the generic neon rain every time. But a human artist might draw it with like, vintage shop signs or weird plants growing through the concrete. AI can't add those personal lived-in details unless you force it to, and even then it feels off. The weird style comes from human choices a computer wouldn't make.