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AI IS KILLING CREATIVITY!
27% OF DESIGNERS & COPYWRITERS ALREADY JOBLESS - WHAT’S NEXT?
Hey Farcasters!
In an era where everyone’s shouting about the “AI revolution,” reality hits like a truck: people are losing jobs not in code or analytics, but in what seemed uniquely human - creativity, writing, and communication.
The results are shocking: 27% of cases are in creativity (graphic design, copywriting, illustration). This isn’t theory - these are real people whose skills are now being generated by Midjourney or ChatGPT in minutes.
Hot facts from global data:
🚨 Graphic designers in hell:
One designer shared how their boss AI-generated a “crappy” moodboard and logo, then shoved it in the team’s face: “See? The client loved it!” Now the job isn’t creating - it’s fixing merged fingers and teeth in AI images.
Clients expect “instant” content, and freelance markets collapsed: 3,500+ applicants per gig instead of 50. McKinsey predicts: 14% of creative workforce will switch careers by 2030.
🚨 Copywriters & editors in the trash:
A literary editor at a sci-fi publisher was laid off - replaced by a “robot” for text analysis. SEO writers: traffic tanks due to Google’s AI overviews; entire content teams gutted, forced to use copy.ai. 20 years of experience? Gone.
Now it’s “edit the slop” from AI’s first draft. In the thread: freelance writing market “decimated in days.”
🚨 Support & admin - 22% + 18%:
Chatbots are wiping out customer service and captioning for the hard-of-hearing. Example: a call center for disabled people - AI gives wrong medical info, lawsuits fly, but staff gets slashed.
Admin paperwork: niche forms (250–500 pages) - AI fails, small businesses go bankrupt, 80% of jobs vanish.
🚨 Why creativity faster than tech? Programming (15%) and analytics (12%) hold strong:
AI (Copilot) hallucinates, needs context, debugging. A data scientist was fired because the boss trusted DBSCAN from AI over k-means - company later posted “AI Scientist” in India. But in text/design, non-experts (managers) see “80% correct” and cut: Dunning-Kruger in full effect. WEF: AI will displace 92M jobs by 2030, but create 78M new - focus on hybrid skills.
🚨 The spiciest truth: this isn’t replacement:
It’s a cover for outsourcing (India/Africa at $400/month) and bubble hype. Companies mask missed revenue as “AI initiatives” - stock pumps, experts dumped. PwC: in tech, AI boosts wages; in creativity - product enshitification (generic slop).
🌐 Bottom line:
Soon you won’t be judged by what you do, but by how fast AI does it under your command.
As I always say: do what others aren’t - learn, experiment, implement. Master prompts, blend AI with human touch (empathy, niche art). Pivot to manual (barber, pottery) or hybrid (AI-assisted dev).
🤜 AI is a tool, not a god - without you, it breaks.