Dd boss quitting the arts due to AI. Is this the end for creatives

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Just as the title says really.

My dd is very creative. She has autism so isn't suited to office work.

Her boss is canning her business as she can't get new commissions due to AI

She is highly experienced and does amazing work.

The future looks very scary and I'm sure not the only industry affected. What are we all going to do for money.

My daughter is a photographer, brand face and content creator on social media she is now being frequently replaced by Ai avatars.

Her view is it will come round and future clients will value authenticity far higher than they do now.

Just have to weather this period, she’s cut her prices and her work is now less niche but needs must.

It's worrying isn't it? It reminds me of my friend who was a translator years ago. The work dried up once the Internet gave credible options for a quick translation. She always argued that a human does a quality job, whereas the online translation could be garbled, but people often value "good enough and immediate".

I do some design work, my passion is graphic design, although it's not my field and it's being decimated by crappy AI.

My advice to any would be design student is stay traditional, fine art, sculpture, ceramics, maybe lean into trades etc. There will always be a market for traditional hand created work, my actual field is making something by hand that has been mass created in factories for decades, but there is still a market for hand made.

I do agree with sticking with it and creating something that can’t just be produced by AI. Dh runs a creative business, think something along the lines of sculpture. Since COVID, business has been booming. He employs 6 staff and still can barely keep up with demand. Easily close to £1mil a year turnover.

People want authenticity. Not some numpty who is just buying because they saw an ad on instagram. But I mean normal people with money to spend. People spend enormous amounts of money having his work shipped out to them in America or the Middle East or Australia. Like literally will pay as much as the piece itself in shipping because they want something authentically hand made and it’s hard to find.

AI is novel, so sure might be trendy for a minute, but not for long. It will all come around. I think what’s really key for creatives though is business skills. Lots of people can make pretty things, but they can’t market them and they can’t run a business in the black. If she needs an alternative route to pursue while she’s feeling dejected, business skills are the way to go if she wants to run a creative business.

Yes. To some extent I agree there will be a small market for hand made but that won't be able to support everyone