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This is my experience as well. I run a bootstrapped business, so we don't have a ton of backing. We can't afford the top design firms, and Fable can do better t

This is my experience as well. I run a bootstrapped business, so we don't have a ton of backing. We can't afford the top design firms, and Fable can do better than those within our budget. So it's not that we prefer AI over human designers; we just don't have the money!

sevenzero 8d ago
Creativity does not have to be expensive to be good. Yall just dont want to bother dealing with it.
- sammularczyk 8d ago
  Exactly. Sad to see another industry getting decimated by AI just to save a bit of cash.
  - w4yai 8d ago
    A bit ? A lot.
    - sevenzero 8d ago
      Because people assume u need to actually hire someone to make art. Just let your kid draw something for your small restaurant. It's more pleasant to look at for people who didn't yet sell their soul to AI.
      - sejje 8d ago
        Then you get Chick o' Fish. It is not, in fact, more pleasant to look at.
      - rpdillon 8d ago
        > Just let your kid draw something for your small restaurant. Wait, we've gone from "pay the local artists" because AI shows you're "lazy and cheap" and "don't care about your brand". And now whatever my 7-year-old draws is good enough. My only conclusion reading these threads is that folks come in with their mind made up, and will argue absolutely anything so long as it amounts to "AI bad".
        Barrin92 8d ago
        the point of advertising is to communicate something. If your kid draws your menu, you signal family values. If you pay a local artist, you signal investment in the community. If ChatGPT churns out your ad you've signaled nothing. And that's obviously why you can criticize AI for every imaginable reason. That's indeed the difference and why people, regardless of how 'good' your AI art will be, will attempt to hide it, because it defeats the purpose of advertising as such.
        rpdillon 7d ago
        And every person I talk to has a different take. In one case, it's that you don't respect the brand and you're lazy and you're cheap. In another, it's that you're signaling your values. Maybe the reality is a lot of people have different feelings about this. Most people don't care and I'm mostly engaging with the loudest detractors, each with their own reason for hating AI.
        sevenzero 7d ago
        >And every person I talk to has a different take. Maybe every person you talk to is autistic with no sense for creativity at all. Thats what most of this dogshit website consists of. Programmers with no values, no creativity, no friends, no life and no self awareness. People who actually should be replaced by AI because they lack human values.
        Barrin92 7d ago
        >Maybe the reality is a lot of people have different feelings about this. yes that is the reality, but what I was saying was is that the abstract reason for that is what's called costly signalling in economics, biology or even religious studies. When you want to display, advertise or communicate to earn yourself trust, it must cost something. Whether that's proof of work, or money, or reputation or skill, what all AI criticisms have in common is that AI costs nothing. Signalling values isn't 'another thing', it's what underlies every motivation for an ad or display and the better your AI tools get the less of a costly signal it is.
- opem 8d ago
  These people just doesn't have a good taste, imo.
- masfuerte 8d ago
  This is like anything. If you want good and inexpensive it's going to be a pain in your arse one way or another.
- dreambigwrkhard 8d ago
  I was the person who "had to bother dealing with it" many years ago before we had AI, Canva, or even Adobe cloud. I volunteered and designed a good amount of posters for student organizations. Don't enjoy it but did it to help my peers and friends out. I find it ironic that back then we had a lot of trouble finding people who were willing to design posters and promo media on print. Now the comment section on this post has people mourning AI taking over poster making in 2026. Where was the help back then? From the perspective of someone who had to burn the midnight oil to do it for years, trust me, I would rather not do it and spend that time with my family and friends. And judging from how hard it was to find others who were willing to do it, I think its a reasonable argument that most people were not actually willing to do the work either. So mourn away but I wouldn't cry if I "missed out" on making posters. If we had AI back then, I would not take on any of those poster making requests.
  - breezybottom 8d ago
    Back when? The 1970s? I don't believe that you couldn't find poster making services in the last 10-20 years.
    - fn-mote 8d ago
      You missed the “I volunteered” part. They were working for free.
      - breezybottom 8d ago
        "I find it ironic that back then we had a lot of trouble finding people who were willing to design posters and promo media on print." I don't see the word free here. Of course you'd have trouble finding people to do anything for free.
        adwn 8d ago
        They said: "I volunteered and designed a good amount of posters for student organizations." What do you think how many student organization have the excess money to hire a professional designer for a one-off poster? Of course they needed someone to do it for free, or else it wouldn't have been done at all!
- jryle70 8d ago
  For every human good art that is cheap I can show you ten that are not. The problem is you don't know which version you'd get. Someone charges less because they are unknown. Fixing AI art is much less hassle than human one.
spinach 8d ago
This technology is super new and I've only seen AI posters really proliferate in the past few months and suddenly... people don't know how to live without it?
- sejje 8d ago
  Well, no. Before genAI, I used fiverr, and I was also shamed for hiring those humans.
- rpdillon 8d ago
  They're not saying they can't live without it, they're saying it's helpful. If you've been walking to the well for years to get buckets of water, and suddenly have running water in your kitchen, going back to trudging buckets doesn't sound very appealing.
bossyTeacher 8d ago
> we just don't have the money! You don't have ANY money? Plenty of students would do a great job for a little money and a professional reference. Now you just helped the workforce, helped the local economy and cost you little.
- hardbass 8d ago
  Depends on which economy the buyer and the seller respectively come from.
- bartvk 8d ago
  What is your experience with design done by students? Because mine isn't great. It's not bad either, but it's just... mediocre.
- slig 8d ago
  Have you ever tried doing that? In my experience, art students don't like to work for "little money" and "professional reference" and stablished artists don't like when you try to pay "little money" to students.
- micromacrofoot 8d ago
  the problem is that AI does better than those students, especially if you don't know what good design looks like... which is most people but of course this means the entire market will dry up because no one pays students anymore
- oytis 8d ago
  In year 2026 you are likely going to pay for a meat proxy who would still use the same model just without you controlling the prompt.
- SoftTalker 8d ago
  These days a cheap designer is just going to be a meat proxy for AI anyway. AI, at least for now while it's still free/very cheap, enables producing a lot of very low-value content that in the past you never could have justified spending money and human labor on. The cost or time needed to make a poster or a flyer acted as a value-based gatekeeper. Today, it costs nothing to make an AI slop image and blast it out on social media, so we're drowning in it.
carlosjobim 8d ago
You have the money, you just don't have the contacts or skills to find a good designer which charges you a fair price. Big design firms will rip you off. Their job is to get corruption contracts from the public sector or big enterprises, and then reward their insider later with a nice fake job. Saying you don't have the money for a designer is a bit like saying you can't go on business trip because the company can't afford to purchase a jet airplane right now.
fzeroracer 8d ago
Damn, how did businesses survive decades without being able to pay some intern or someone in the office to quickly put up a poster? Like come on, claiming 'budget' is the issue here when I can see indie bands operating with twigs and some chewing gum figure out how to put together a poster for their band is embarassing.

sevenzero 8d ago

Creativity does not have to be expensive to be good. Yall just dont want to bother dealing with it.

sammularczyk 8d ago
Exactly. Sad to see another industry getting decimated by AI just to save a bit of cash.
- w4yai 8d ago
  A bit ? A lot.
  - sevenzero 8d ago
    Because people assume u need to actually hire someone to make art. Just let your kid draw something for your small restaurant. It's more pleasant to look at for people who didn't yet sell their soul to AI.
    - sejje 8d ago
      Then you get Chick o' Fish. It is not, in fact, more pleasant to look at.
    - rpdillon 8d ago
      > Just let your kid draw something for your small restaurant. Wait, we've gone from "pay the local artists" because AI shows you're "lazy and cheap" and "don't care about your brand". And now whatever my 7-year-old draws is good enough. My only conclusion reading these threads is that folks come in with their mind made up, and will argue absolutely anything so long as it amounts to "AI bad".
      - Barrin92 8d ago
        the point of advertising is to communicate something. If your kid draws your menu, you signal family values. If you pay a local artist, you signal investment in the community. If ChatGPT churns out your ad you've signaled nothing. And that's obviously why you can criticize AI for every imaginable reason. That's indeed the difference and why people, regardless of how 'good' your AI art will be, will attempt to hide it, because it defeats the purpose of advertising as such.
        rpdillon 7d ago
        And every person I talk to has a different take. In one case, it's that you don't respect the brand and you're lazy and you're cheap. In another, it's that you're signaling your values. Maybe the reality is a lot of people have different feelings about this. Most people don't care and I'm mostly engaging with the loudest detractors, each with their own reason for hating AI.
        sevenzero 7d ago
        >And every person I talk to has a different take. Maybe every person you talk to is autistic with no sense for creativity at all. Thats what most of this dogshit website consists of. Programmers with no values, no creativity, no friends, no life and no self awareness. People who actually should be replaced by AI because they lack human values.
        Barrin92 7d ago
        >Maybe the reality is a lot of people have different feelings about this. yes that is the reality, but what I was saying was is that the abstract reason for that is what's called costly signalling in economics, biology or even religious studies. When you want to display, advertise or communicate to earn yourself trust, it must cost something. Whether that's proof of work, or money, or reputation or skill, what all AI criticisms have in common is that AI costs nothing. Signalling values isn't 'another thing', it's what underlies every motivation for an ad or display and the better your AI tools get the less of a costly signal it is.
opem 8d ago
These people just doesn't have a good taste, imo.
masfuerte 8d ago
This is like anything. If you want good and inexpensive it's going to be a pain in your arse one way or another.
dreambigwrkhard 8d ago
I was the person who "had to bother dealing with it" many years ago before we had AI, Canva, or even Adobe cloud. I volunteered and designed a good amount of posters for student organizations. Don't enjoy it but did it to help my peers and friends out. I find it ironic that back then we had a lot of trouble finding people who were willing to design posters and promo media on print. Now the comment section on this post has people mourning AI taking over poster making in 2026. Where was the help back then? From the perspective of someone who had to burn the midnight oil to do it for years, trust me, I would rather not do it and spend that time with my family and friends. And judging from how hard it was to find others who were willing to do it, I think its a reasonable argument that most people were not actually willing to do the work either. So mourn away but I wouldn't cry if I "missed out" on making posters. If we had AI back then, I would not take on any of those poster making requests.
- breezybottom 8d ago
  Back when? The 1970s? I don't believe that you couldn't find poster making services in the last 10-20 years.
  - fn-mote 8d ago
    You missed the “I volunteered” part. They were working for free.
    - breezybottom 8d ago
      "I find it ironic that back then we had a lot of trouble finding people who were willing to design posters and promo media on print." I don't see the word free here. Of course you'd have trouble finding people to do anything for free.
      - adwn 8d ago
        They said: "I volunteered and designed a good amount of posters for student organizations." What do you think how many student organization have the excess money to hire a professional designer for a one-off poster? Of course they needed someone to do it for free, or else it wouldn't have been done at all!
jryle70 8d ago
For every human good art that is cheap I can show you ten that are not. The problem is you don't know which version you'd get. Someone charges less because they are unknown. Fixing AI art is much less hassle than human one.

spinach 8d ago

This technology is super new and I've only seen AI posters really proliferate in the past few months and suddenly... people don't know how to live without it?

sejje 8d ago
Well, no. Before genAI, I used fiverr, and I was also shamed for hiring those humans.
rpdillon 8d ago
They're not saying they can't live without it, they're saying it's helpful. If you've been walking to the well for years to get buckets of water, and suddenly have running water in your kitchen, going back to trudging buckets doesn't sound very appealing.

bossyTeacher 8d ago

> we just don't have the money! You don't have ANY money? Plenty of students would do a great job for a little money and a professional reference. Now you just helped the workforce, helped the local economy and cost you little.

hardbass 8d ago
Depends on which economy the buyer and the seller respectively come from.
bartvk 8d ago
What is your experience with design done by students? Because mine isn't great. It's not bad either, but it's just... mediocre.
slig 8d ago
Have you ever tried doing that? In my experience, art students don't like to work for "little money" and "professional reference" and stablished artists don't like when you try to pay "little money" to students.
micromacrofoot 8d ago
the problem is that AI does better than those students, especially if you don't know what good design looks like... which is most people but of course this means the entire market will dry up because no one pays students anymore
oytis 8d ago
In year 2026 you are likely going to pay for a meat proxy who would still use the same model just without you controlling the prompt.
SoftTalker 8d ago
These days a cheap designer is just going to be a meat proxy for AI anyway. AI, at least for now while it's still free/very cheap, enables producing a lot of very low-value content that in the past you never could have justified spending money and human labor on. The cost or time needed to make a poster or a flyer acted as a value-based gatekeeper. Today, it costs nothing to make an AI slop image and blast it out on social media, so we're drowning in it.

carlosjobim 8d ago

You have the money, you just don't have the contacts or skills to find a good designer which charges you a fair price. Big design firms will rip you off. Their job is to get corruption contracts from the public sector or big enterprises, and then reward their insider later with a nice fake job. Saying you don't have the money for a designer is a bit like saying you can't go on business trip because the company can't afford to purchase a jet airplane right now.

fzeroracer 8d ago

Damn, how did businesses survive decades without being able to pay some intern or someone in the office to quickly put up a poster? Like come on, claiming 'budget' is the issue here when I can see indie bands operating with twigs and some chewing gum figure out how to put together a poster for their band is embarassing.