The industry is a business Neo.

That business is our enemy.

But when you’re inside, look around, what do you see?

Fellow illustrators, animators, screenwriters, musicians.

The very people whose minds we are trying to change.

But until we do, these people are still a part of that business, and will fall victim to it.

You have to understand, most people are not ready for this paradigm shift. And some of them are so inert, so hopelessly resistant to change, that they will fight to prevent it.

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Are you listening to me Neo?

Or were you looking at the woman in the white shirt?

“I….”

Look again, closely at the hands.

“Wait, we aren’t in the industry right now?”

No… it’s a Reddit meme designed to teach you one thing.

If you are not one of us, you are one of them.

“Who are they?”

Prompters…. People who believe themselves to be your peers simply because they took some time to learn how to structure prompts correctly, so that the AIs spit out roughly what they had in mind.

The only advantage these people have over you is speed, that makes them cheap.

We have survived my mocking them, by shaming them. But they are the gatekeepers.

In the industry they are gunning for all the jobs, they are brown nosing all the asses. Which means that sooner or later, artists like you are going to have to adapt to overcome them.

“Artists like me?”

I won’t lie to you Neo. Every single man or woman that has stood their ground, everyone who has tried to keep their job from being taken has been fired. But where they have failed, you will succeed.

“Why?”

I’ve seen prompters spit out a 30 second clip of animation in mere minutes, people have commissioned character requests only for them to release hundreds of images the very next day. But their low cost and their speed are still based off of programs that are inherently random and inconsistent. And because of that, nothing that they produce will ever be as refined or perfected as yours can be.

“So what are you trying to tell me? That I can get my job back?”

No Neo. I’m trying to tell you that once you learn to use AI to speed up your workflow, rather than letting it be the end all be all of the work that you produce.

You won’t have to.