90% of this freelancer's design gigs are now cleaning up AI slop
nordicinst · x · 2026-09-02
The Guardian reports companies now hire creatives to fix AI slop rather than make original work. Spanish freelance designer Lisa says by 2025 90% of her logo/packaging requests were fixing AI-generated designs, accounting for 60–70% of her annual income — but clients lowball her, some output must be rebuilt from scratch, and she worries about copyright complicity, so she's now refusing such jobs as "soulless." The piece warns clients underestimate cleanup time and calls for funding real creative work.
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