Welcome back to Creative Frontiers. Today we’re diving into a candid post from ReverentGeek, a software and content creator who confesses: “I love generative AI. I use AI tools more and more. It’s unlocked more creativity, ideas, and productivity.” Yet, that very technology has cost him half his illustration side hustle in the last year: “In the last 12 months, my illustration business has dropped more than 50%.”

He admits he’s torn: “I hate generative AI.” It satisfies curiosity and entertainment that once paid artists, and he worries, “We will effectively lose many creative skills to a new generation without the incentive and motivation to learn them.” And he wonders if, with AI at his fingertips earlier, he might never have honed his own illustration style: “If I had access to these AI tools years ago, I may have never developed the illustration skills I have today.”

But the post ends on hope: we’ll discover new creative realms never imagined before—and one day ask, “How did we ever live without this?”
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