AI art sucks, but designers were already forced to yield: the business-vs-art line sharpens
paul_cal · x · 2026-09-13
- Quoted take: the "AI came for artists, now mathematicians" narrative is wrong—artists are fine because AI art is literally worse, not for ideological reasons.
- The author counters that artist-adjacent roles like designers have already been forced to hand over to the machine. Design has always had a business-vs-art tension, but now non-artists can paste crappy-but-adequate AI alternatives side by side, sharpening it.
- Net point: pure art resists AI, but commercial design jobs are being eroded by cheap, passable AI output—and this will likely continue.
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