Designers hit hardest: image gen went from LoRA training to a free giveaway in 3 years
FuSheng_0306 · x · 2026-10-28
A designer describes the whiplash: in 2024 they were training LoRAs and writing hundred-word prompts, by 2025 it was natural language, and in 2026 image generation 'just does what you point at' with surprisingly strong Chinese text rendering — now nearly free and bundled as a giveaway with video generation. Commenters note every formerly 'professional' field is being hit.
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