Except typographers still exist, we need them to create fonts that aren’t comic sans.
Typographers saw the same thing when personal computing in the latter half of the 90s. Almost over night, everyone starting printing their own documentation and comic sans was their canary in the coal mine. It was progress but progress is rarely good for everyone. There’s always a give and a take.
echodot@feddit.uk 4 days ago
bigmclargehuge@lemmy.world 3 days ago
As another user said, typographers still exist. And, until now, computers weren’t really a threat to their job security. They were just a new set of tools they had to adapt to. But, if I was running a business and had little regard for ethics, why would I hire a typographer when I could just ask an AI to generate a new font for my billboard, and have it done in 30 seconds for free?
I get the argument that AI is a tool that lowers the barrier of entry to certain fields, which is absolutely true. If I wanted to be a graphic designer today, I could do it with AI. But, when I went to sell my logo to the small company down the street, I’d have to come to terms with the fact that the owner of that business also happened to become a graphic designer that very morning, and all of a sudden my career is over before it started.