Lately, there’s been a lot happening in the public AI space... OpenAI, DeepSeek, and all those mind-blowing tools. It’s wild.
ChatGPT is now doing everything. Writing, coding, making logos, even generating images that look like they came from a pro design studio. A few months ago, you needed to be someone with too much time on Midjourney or into AI tools just to get something close. Now? Just type in a few words and bam!-- professional artwork.
And here’s the part that really messes with me: I used to make custom cartoons for people.
Back in 2016 or 2017, on my free time or over the weekend I would spend 4 to 7 hours drawing a single character, sometimes GTA-style, sometimes cute and cartoony. It took real time, real effort. And people paid for that.
Now? You can do it in less than one minute with a single prompt.
Honestly, I don’t know how to feel. On one hand, this is amazing. I’m not anti-AI. In fact, I’m all for it, if it pushes humanity forward in tech, education, medicine… I’m cheering it on.
But still, there’s a part of me that feels for the artists and designers. If I was still doing design full-time, I’d be panicking too. Like, how do you even compete with that?
Then again, this isn’t new. Think about it, farmers used to complain about tractors taking their jobs. But eventually, they adapted, and many of them made more money with less effort thanks to machines.
Same thing happened with the internet. People were like, “Buy stuff online? Through a screen? Nah.”
Now look at us.
So yeah, this whole AI thing is both crazy and exciting at the same time. I’m curious (and slightly terrified) to see how it’s going to change everything, how we work, how we communicate, how we make money.
This is just me thinking out loud (or... “antiloud”?).
What about you?
If a machine can now do something you used to be proud of...
Would you feel inspired, or replaced?
And more importantly, how do we stay valuable in a world where AI can do almost everything?