Suhail Doshi, founder and CEO of AI image platform Playground, discusses the employment impact of generative AI on graphic designers with Alex Kantrowitz.
“So did all the people that you know, that were people that drew the two D cartoons, they lose their jobs. And, you know, that was the end of the end of an era. Definitely not people retooled the stories that came from them were still really material to their creative process story matters more for a company like Disney or Pixar. Then the animation itself. So I think in this case, you know, the graphics matter, but I think that people will retool.”
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