That's one reason I give a fuck you to ai.

As a gd I understand the pain since I was successful from 2000-2018 when ai & stable diffusion came out. Everyday I was getting phone calls losing clients went from $10k a week to $0 in 3 weeks. So if you're paying a designer it's just because you appreciate them. But truthfully ai killed the need for graphic designers. Now we all have to evolve from designer to programmer because now today graphic design is. How do I make all these plugins work & I need to learn the talking language.

I imagine like the rest of different industries if graphic designers somehow manage to adapt to survive the shift it would be like video games. The price goes up & you get the same shit. But it wouldn't because if it did go like that then the same chick your paying $50 for that banner would probably charge $250 for the same exact thing just because they need to spend more time working the plugins to produce exactly what you want the way you want.

This is why I don't think the gd for individuals will survive. At that point the consumers would probably rather learn sd themselves or find a friend then pay $250 for a banner for your business.