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Comment by micromacrofoot | Hacker News Reader

for the price you pay ai you would 100% get a cherry blossom tree from an inexperienced designer

Ai costs under $10 though, you wouldn’t be able to hire a human for that

Pretty sure 90% of the posters of the type at the top of the article are made for $0. I bet for $10 you could get real artists from non-Western countries to make a simple poster, but these days people would probably claim those $10 jobs and then have AI generate them anyway.

right, even worse... if you paid 5X that you'd still be getting whatever was the first idea that came to mind

You're easily in 10X territory to get something pretty basic with a round of feedback and maybe 50X to start to get something good

the low to mid range of any visual design market has essentially been destroyed

Destroyed or democratized? I'd question the financial judgement if a local fair actually paid a designer for a poster and revisions, versus just literally typing something in Word and adding some clip art.

obviously a lot of nuance, but depends on the scale of the fair at least... some have sizable design and marketing budgets

you could still use clip art so this isn't democratizing shit, it's laundered copyright theft

it's also destroying the market for royalty free stock art by essentially cloning copyrighted art

the entire economy for this sort of design is being absorbed by venture capital, it's not even like a traditional -> digital art shift

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