Why DALL-E will not steal my job as an illustrator
In my opinion, image generation models will replace <i>some</i> jobs - the low-value stuff that&#x27;s basically &quot;I need <i>somebody</i> to draw a bunch of random things and I don&#x27;t particularly care about the outcome&quot;.<p>Now, moving up the value chain we find ourselves at design agencies that do 2 things: they <i>gather requirements</i> and then they convert those requirements into an output. Many times a client themselves don&#x27;t know what they want, and part of a good agency&#x27;s job is turning nebulous requirements into something usable (and charging through the roof for it).<p>The technology will make images much more accessible - the same way Google translate is crap, but it opened up me communicating with a random foreign dude when travelling in a new country that nobody would&#x27;ve ever hired a translator for. The translators moved up market to industries where it&#x27;s important that a human verified everything looks good like official government&#x2F;corporate publications.<p>Same thing here; one day you&#x27;ll have these models in powerpoint and people will click on the model when they need <i>some</i> kind of image there. The high-end won&#x27;t go away, but the low-value work almost certainly will.