Graphic Designers

47% (Moderate Risk)

Moderate Risk (41-60%): Occupations with a moderate risk of automation usually involve routine tasks but still require some human judgment and interaction.

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Wages

Moderately paid relative to other professions

In 2023, the median annual wage for 'Graphic Designers' was $58,910, or $28 per hour

'Graphic Designers' were paid 22.6% higher than the national median wage, which stood at $48,060

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Gabe 1 day ago

Hey my fellow designers, i know we all can recognize a good work from a mediocre to bad one, we are trained on our field after all, however there are tons of clients who will see some ai generated slop and feel like it's good enough (specially for logos or illustration).

So yeah, i don't think corporate will slow down on their demand for professionals but freelance will take a huge tool (i think), i myself am trying to expand it as of late, art comissions were never stable but i loved to them (nowadays the chance of getting a client is probably close to 0 since a lot of basic stuff is covered for the average client without high standarts) so i opt out to learn how to tattoo, so maybe if it ever comes to lose my job because of some morons from the tech industry i might have something else to go by.

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anonymous (Low) 13 days ago

because graphic design requires good creativity, something robots dont have

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Crazy (Moderate) 2 months ago

It's undeniably possible. Rapidly improving, despite many efforts. By 20 years, I believe that generative "art" will be able to imitate a style perfectly, given proper instruction.

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ella amborn 23 days ago

Depressing but i agree

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Steve (Low) 3 months ago

High barrier of entry, high returns and low maintenance career after about 15,000 hours.

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79_sketches (Uncertain) 5 months ago

A couple of years ago this was less than 5%. It is scary to see this advance in just 2 years

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Anonymous message (Uncertain) 10 months ago

It involves designing, which might make it unpredictable. Coding involves a set of rules. If you remember the rules, you can write code easily.

But that's not the case with designing. Though designing has rules, it's not as rigid as coding.

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Jake (Uncertain) 10 months ago

AI, at its current stages, can only replicate patterns it sees in the images and text it’s given. It isn’t capable of the knowledge behind the design choices in Graphic Design. AI doesn’t understand anatomy, color theory, or other aspects of art. However, this doesn’t mean that it can’t in the future, and it certainly doesn’t mean it can’t fool us into thinking it knows what it’s doing.

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Max (Highly likely) 10 months ago

AI has shown that it is increasingly capable of creating art when given instructions, which will make being a graphic designer an unnecessary position in the coming decades.

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h 10 months ago

Just no. AI art looks and will always look awful and soulless. People who say "ohhh its ai it'll look better in the future" just dont know how AI works. AI isnt gonna replace ANY creative processes, EVER.

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Jim 2 months ago

This will have aged terribly 10 years from now.

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skibidi (Moderate) 10 months ago

AI keeps getting better with graphic design in general. Just look at things like Sora by OpenAI or the Microsoft Bing Image Creator, and then think about what that'll look like in a couple of years.

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nyah (Low) 10 months ago

motion graphics is too perfect to replicate

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Azazel (Low) 10 months ago

Looking that artist fight back against artificial intelligence by making Anti-AI Flitters that seems to lower the risk not to mention what you put as a reason for 34% risk which is that It's hard to automate Originality, fine arts.etc not to mention that every single artist have their own style even in the umbrella terms, for example you can't say style in Toilet Bound Hanako kun is the same as one in Blue Exorcist.etc.
In short: Even if hard it in theory could be possible, but I'm more for making that AI + Artist combo to help people with drawing.

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Ravi j (Uncertain) 10 months ago

I mean we can't say anything at this moment the a.i design are polish n all but it fails in communicating the message of the design, need a human to assist n monitor.

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Bee (Uncertain) 12 months ago

Hard to say, because AI is doing a pretty good job at creating art. However, it still has a way to go with hands and the CGI look a lot of the art it creates has.

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Tvrbo (Moderate) 12 months ago

It is more likely that designers will use artificial intelligence as a tool, as there are things that artificial intelligence will not be able to do, such as creating a completely original and coherent branding system.

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josh (Highly likely) 12 months ago

its easy to train ai on boring corporate designs

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Nikkolas (Highly likely) 12 months ago

There's already a viral video out right now about a graphic designer who has 8 years of experience being made redundant by ai...

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Bob (Moderate) 12 months ago

Due to the rise of generative AI, companies will be incentivized to use AI databases that are relevant to what they do in order to cut costs. While some demand for graphic designers may still exist for more creativity demanding areas, I believe it won't be enough to answer an increasing supply of out-of-job graphic designers

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marvin jakata (Moderate) 1 year ago

i would say moderate because in as much as AI is coming there still will need that using touch combined with it but then also the market might become too overcrowded with more and more people coming into the design space.

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Wil 1 year ago

Clients will not pay designers handsomely because 90 percent of the work will be done with Ai tools such as Dalle 3. Small adjustments takes minutes in photoshop and can be done in-house by almost anyone.

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