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by sevenzero22 hours ago |
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upvoteby dreambigwrkhard21 hours ago|
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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.

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upvoteby dgacmu21 hours ago|
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One of my best memories from an art class in high school was that a student organization came into our class and asked if any of us would be willing to design a poster. I ended up designing and silk-screening their poster for them and it was a fantastic experience.

I can totally see how doing more than a couple would start to feel like work, but having one or two experiences like that was awesome.

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upvoteby dreambigwrkhard20 hours ago|
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oh my. from my perspective, this is the most useful comment on this post.

we should have asked the arts students! (and find a way to return the favor) i did not think about that.

that being said there were some intense rivalry between various studies, my presence may not be have been well received.

and judging how i am here, you can guess what i studied :-)

thank you for this. really feel like i got a missing piece of a puzzle reading this.

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upvoteby breezybottom21 hours ago|
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Back when? The 1970s? I don't believe that you couldn't find poster making services in the last 10-20 years.
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upvoteby fn-mote20 hours ago|
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You missed the “I volunteered” part. They were working for free.
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upvoteby breezybottom20 hours ago|
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"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.

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upvoteby adwn19 hours ago|
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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!
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upvoteby breezybottom11 hours ago|
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That doesn't even make sense. If you volunteered, then you did find someone. Yourself.
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upvoteby adwn2 hours ago|
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Are you being intentionally obtuse? Try reading their comment in its entirety, and not just as individual fragments taken out of context: They most likely didn't have the budget to hire a professional designer and no one else would do it for free, so they had to do it themselves. They didn't enjoy it, and they would've gladly passed that work to an AI, had one existed back then.

It's not that hard to understand. Here, I've linked it for your convenience: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49765890

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upvoteby jryle7021 hours ago|
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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.
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upvoteby masfuerte21 hours ago|
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This is like anything. If you want good and inexpensive it's going to be a pain in your arse one way or another.
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upvoteby sammularczyk22 hours ago|
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Exactly. Sad to see another industry getting decimated by AI just to save a bit of cash.
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upvoteby w4yai21 hours ago|
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A bit ? A lot.
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upvoteby sevenzero20 hours ago|
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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.
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upvoteby rpdillon16 hours ago|
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> 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".

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upvoteby Barrin9210 hours ago|
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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.

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upvoteby sejje19 hours ago|
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Then you get Chick o' Fish.

It is not, in fact, more pleasant to look at.

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upvoteby opem21 hours ago|
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These people just doesn't have a good taste, imo.
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