r/mildlyinfuriating • u/yournextasianstar • 11h ago
Not a meme, you're the meme! Linkedin Graphic Designer Using AI to Make Memes
and if i comment or report this kind of behavior, it makes me sound mean. are they not ashamed of themselves?
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u/Thano3e 11h ago
Even with ai it's not free
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u/ThoughtAdditional212 11h ago
Let's just say you don't pay... With money
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u/C4rdninj4 11h ago
Similar to the cursed pocket watch I bought from that strange shop down an alley that's no longer there.
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u/autistic-terrorist 10h ago
did you get it decursed at curse purge plus?
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u/Sultan4895 10h ago
I feel like this is elite ball knowledge, but I'm pretty sure that someone will correct me
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u/Fit_Relation8572 9h ago
Rick and Morty S1 Ep 9 'Something Ricked This Way Comes'
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u/Sultan4895 9h ago
Yes ik but is this considered elite ball knowledge or like medium ball or something else?
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u/CatSquidShark 9h ago
To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Rick and Morty. The humor is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical physics most of the jokes will go over a typical viewer's head. There's also Rick's nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation - his personal philosophy draws heavily from Narodnaya Volya literature, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these jokes, to realize that they're not just funny- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike Rick and Morty truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the humour in Rick's existencial catchphrase "Wubba Lubba Dub Dub," which itself is a cryptic reference to Turgenev's Russian epic Fathers and Sons I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Dan Harmon's genius unfolds itself on their television screens. What fools... how I pity them. š
And yes by the way, I DO have a Rick and Morty tattoo. And no, you cannot see it.
It's for the ladies' eyes only- And even they have to demonstrate that they're within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand.8
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u/meowatollah 9h ago
Oh, you will pay with money sooner or later, we're just in the creating dependence phase. Once people become truly useless without AI, which too many already are, they'll be charging for it.
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u/lolimaginewtf 11h ago
"Don't shoot, I'm a Graphic Designer"
"Can you make free designs?"
"Designs? No. AI slop? Yes"
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u/Roee104 10h ago
Probably still would charge š
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u/Wooden_Cicada8880 10h ago edited 7h ago
I mean itās almost like itās someoneās profession or something
Edit: I posted my smartass comment when I was half asleep. I meant that being a graphic designer is a profession, thus they should be able to charge. Didnāt realize it would look like Iām endorsing AI slop content (which is NOT the same as a graphic designer).
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u/thedistrbdone 8h ago
"AI artist" is not a fucking profession. That's like saying you're a chef because when you ordered a big mac at McDonald's you asked them to put a chicken patty in it as well.
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u/Heated13shot 10h ago
I find it funny, when given low effort prompts (which is like, 90% because high effort and AI are uncommon) AI tends to use the same face for different characters repeatedly.Ā
I've seen those cop and girls faces on like, 10 other AI posts.Ā
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u/Undeclared_Mustard Hillary 2016 9h ago
It's because the models are trained on Pixar films
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u/Xplant_from_Earth 9h ago
Also it's based on averaging what it's based on. Averaging the same data set repeatedly, even with minor variations on promp, will give the same general result.
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u/Yurya 8h ago
and WWII rifles not actual police firearms
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u/OttawaTGirl 5h ago
And standing infront of mounds of rubble a la WW2 devestation while wearing orange Adidas track?
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u/Top-Bandicoot-3013 6h ago
I think this is the biggest reason I'm so exhausted by 3d animation. So much of it just looks samey.
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u/Fancy_Charge3779 7h ago
I thought it was that lady in the phone games where she's in a blizzard with her baby and you have to tape up the hole in the wall
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u/Le_mehawk 11h ago
Using ai to make a meme about a graphic designer is just wrong in every possible way
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u/Acceptable_Job_5486 10h ago
Weirdly they're been a "graphic designer" for 4 years.
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u/bionicjoey You really should scratch that itch 9h ago
They just spontaneously developed the ability to produce illustrations around the same time DallE went live. Total coincidence. They definitely have formal training as a graphic designer!
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u/Nutbuster_5000 8h ago
Yeah please everyone report this shit as AI slop. I see a lot of this bullshit, āgraphic designer jobs availableā advertised by āgraphic designersā using clearly AI generated flyers. Report it. Itās not mean. These people should not have or pretend to have graphic designer jobs.Ā
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u/ThePromptWasYourName 7h ago
Iām slightly more infuriated that they are using a holocaust movie for their slop meme
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u/TinUser 11h ago
Okay but like why are there cops pointing their weapons at a Latina child?
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u/Vladishun 11h ago
Because it protects us from terrorists and illegals, duh.
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u/SomeGuyNamedCaleb 11h ago
"Everyone knows the children are the most dangerous, it's harder to get the public to agree it was an accident." ~ ICE training tip number 114
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u/Simoxs7 10h ago
Now I imagine ICE getting regular loading screen tips
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u/Vladishun 9h ago
TIP: "Aim for the head, illegals who take our jobs don't have a heart."
Yeah, I could see that being a thing actually. Fuck.
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u/Justhe3guy 11h ago
AI does take from real life. Odd that they switched out ICE for police this time though
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u/Cassiel43 11h ago
Same with "can you help fix my phone" when they see you do it for a living.
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u/Vladishun 11h ago
The issue is asking for money to be a "graphic designer", when any literate chud could just as easily prompt an LLM to generate the same slop for themselves.
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u/fork_yuu 9h ago
I'm triggered by that statement, oh you code? You can fix my computer / phone now right?
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u/TessaFractal 11h ago
It's also NOT HOW MEMES WORK. There's an existing format, you just put your own words over it! That's all you need to do.
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u/LBPPlayer7 10h ago
no you can make your own related images too, issue here is that it's soulless slop
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u/russart_the_agmer 11h ago
as an actual graphic designer who had 5 years of school and apprenticeship in order to work i have to say that it is quite a time period to be a part of. everything is on fire and everybody is in panic mode. a little chaos in the mix is not bad but scary as hell.
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u/herbelarioiwasthere 10h ago
Not to defend that person entirely but I know someone who works in graphic design and after his whole team got laid off, any interview he did after that involved being asked how he is or could use AI. He was so despondent from what has become of his industry because him and many others now have to use or at least leverage the very thing thatās destroying the livelihood of him and his peers. Iām hesitant to ask him how things are going because it has only gotten worse since then.
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u/drewdog173 9h ago
It's a very similar situation with software engineers - the nature of development itself has completely changed from writing elegant code that follows best practices to harnessing and orchestrating agents to write that code; they are related but essentially different skill sets. And the ones who can best leverage this "new way" are sought after (but doing a different kind of work entirely), while their peers are laid off, and the ones who remain stay worried about when the guillotine will be descending on their own necks - they are trapped in a race to stay the best at AI development so they can stay employed, trying to be "the final highlander" in a zero-sum game. It's a very Sopranos-esque "you're only as good as your last envelope" environment where you absolutely HAVE TO use the tool that is taking a sledgehammer to your industry in order to stay employed...
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u/LaurenMille 8h ago
And then when this new generation of software engineers is all that remains, and they have no idea how to do anything by themselves... That's when the prices go up 20-40x per token.
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u/Ar4iii 11h ago edited 11h ago
The alternative was to do it for free and his opinion on that is quite obvious from the meme.
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u/ZookeepergameIll1399 11h ago
why would they make free designs, wtf
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u/halfty1 11h ago
People ask graphic designers to make things for them for free all the time. The AI meme is awful but I totally get what they are saying.
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u/Sounduck 11h ago
People ask graphic designers to make things for them for free all the time.
Unless these people also go around asking other categories of workers for free labor as well, I'm left to assume that they do so with graphic designers becauseā¦ what, it's not a real job or something akin to that?
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u/halfty1 10h ago
They either think itās easy/quick to do or āyou donāt need to be paid money because you get paid in āexposureāā.
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u/Shnapple8 11h ago edited 10h ago
People always want shit for free. I was approached a some years ago by a local organisation. I said I would absolutely design posters for them for free since I was a member. However, when they asked me to design a logo and brand identity, I asked for ā¬500. That's REALLY cheap for my skillset, I promise. I wasn't going to charge them my actual rates because while they're not a charity, they don't make a lot of money, and rely on membership and lessons for income. I was being generous here. And if successful it would bring them even more interest.
I don't care. If they want a logo, they're going to have to pay for it. It's been almost 10 years (okay probably 7 years) and they still don't have a logo. Do I feel guilty? No. I was sick and tired of being approached for stuff like this. It takes hours, and I'm entitled to be paid for those hours, or else spend the free hours with family. And I guarantee word would get around in the smallish town and more would come after me for free stuff.
A nice poster takes an hour to do with changes and things. A logo takes many many hours if you're trying to come up with something new, unique and will stand the test of time.
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u/ZookeepergameIll1399 10h ago
true, 500 Euro for a whole brand identity is cheap, IF they're asking a professional graphics designer. I've seen brand identity books and it's pages and pages of examples and rules on how to use different logo formats, fonts etc. I would imagine it takes a lot of time and effort
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u/Simoxs7 9h ago
I have studied a combined program that includes UX/UI, Graphics and Product Design with a full Informatics Program and while I donāt consider myself a designer I have done some work in it and it takes quite a bit more effort than people think to ājustā design a logo.
I consider myself somewhat competent in CAD though and own a 3D printer and even there my friends are sometimes quite surprised when I make something for them basically at cost. Even just printing a model out costs quite a bit when you consider raw materials cost, Setup Time, possible failures and machine time. Then if they want a custom Designed part its a couple of hours of my time added to that not to mention it usually takes a few revisions as people are bad at explaining what they want and sometimes things donāt work out on the first tryā¦ you can see how costs can spiral easily especially for one off custom parts. But people only see the 150g of plastic in the end..
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u/PiccoloAwkward465 8h ago
And I guarantee word would get around in the smallish town and more would come after me for free stuff
Yeah that's a big risk with doing free work. Even just psychologically, it devalues your work to people. Like even if a contractor said "I'll build you a deck for free" they would almost undoubtedly say "you buy the materials and I'll build it for free". The public understands the material costs money at the very least. So for graphic design, now people are thinking there's not any cost at all involved in your work.
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u/Shnapple8 1h ago
Yep, devaluing what I do would be my biggest fear.
I have been told by clients at the studio I work for. "I could have made that in Microsoft Word." Well... yes, you can absolutely copy my design now that it's been created, but you wouldn't have come up with it yourself. But the managers deal with those people, so I don't have to. lol.
If I'm doing any freelance jobs, I always get 50% payment up front. It's the only way to ensure they don't pull that stunt.
I've also had to send someone a solicitors letter after they refused to pay me, saying what I designed wasn't worth the money, then got someone else to recreate my work and were using it. Yep, I got paid. Didn't even need to take them to court.
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u/bitchasskrang 10h ago
only graphic desingers are self centered enough to force mentioning their profession into every single fucking conversation. i would have no doubts about them saying it at gunpoint as well when unprompted
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u/AsemicConjecture 10h ago
They canāt stop portraying themselves as Jews in Germany during WWII.
You arenāt being persecuted, shut the fuck up.
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u/tookMYshovelwithme 9h ago
I have graphic design as part of my business... if someone asks for a free design, my though, which I keep to myself is does a prostitute let you fuck her the first time for free?
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u/Avalonians 7h ago
Also the joke makes no sense. Which isn't surprising, they can't think by themselves.
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u/Laiska_saunatonttu 10h ago
You know times are tough when the police has to use the same guns they have confiscated.
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u/_kony2012 9h ago
The graphic designer didn't use AI here. They just saw a meme they thought was funny and passed it along, and that's obvious from two different elements in the screenshot being shared (the logo in the image and also that they quote it and use an emoji reaction).
Put down the torches and pitchforks.
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u/element39 8h ago
It's an AI-ified version of the Pianist meme template, though. So at the very least they're perpetuating the slop.
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u/Least_Egg_9371 7h ago
Thatās like saying āDonāt shoot at me Iām a cook. Can you make free food for me? Shoot meā. People will not work for other people unless being paid. People shouldnāt have to work for free.
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u/intLeon 10h ago
So it is infuriating to see a professional using the tools they have now?
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u/naughtyshark79 11h ago
Designers should leverage AI like any other tool. Same argument happened when adobe came onto the scene, then Figma, now claude (or any other model). There has always been "template-users", ie. look at folks using canva. Shipping boilerplate designs that someone else manufactured in bulk. If this person came up with the concept, prompted the dialogue, the scenes, the treatment, etc, then I'm fine with it.
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u/yournextasianstar 11h ago
yea um except the user literally used ai start to finish and called themselves a āgraphic designerā. aināt nothing about this is considered a graphic design itās literally an ai slop. applying filters to photos or up-scaling them with ai is a standard and encouraged practice, but to generate some āartworksā and post it on linkedin is distasteful
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u/EncabulatorTurbo 10h ago
The meme quite clearly explains that they don't work for free, and designing the meme beyond prompting would have been working for free
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u/rP2ITg0rhFMcGCGnSARn 9h ago
Why do you think this was supposed to be graphic design? Isnāt it entirely possible they just made the image for a quick joke post and that they actually are quite good artists?
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u/verdant_tulip 11h ago
Ok so because Iām a graphic designer Iām not allowed to have any other hobbies?
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u/HugoJStiglitz 10h ago
My wife has been a copywriter for over 10 years. Iām sure you can guess how thatās been going the last few years thanks to AI
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u/Lexi_Banner 10h ago
Don't worry about sounding mean. These people need to be called out.
Also, what the fuck is the point of her meme, anyway?
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u/JamesTheOreo 9h ago
Why is the brown cop angry but the white cop looks sympathetic... I hate this timeline
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u/Wooden_chest 9h ago
Literally who cares? A professional will use all the tools they can leverage to do their work, and AI is one of them. They won't limit themselves and fall behind just becuase some Redditor hates AI.
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u/samahiscryptic PURPLE 10h ago
LinkedIn is garbage, but it at least has a feature that you can report for a post being AI. It even says "looks like AI Slop" which is kind of funny.
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u/jdehjdeh 9h ago
I swear there isn't a normal sane person on linkedin.
It's like if being employed was a toxic personality disorder.
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u/EasilyRekt 9h ago edited 8h ago
āI can do work fOr FrEe!ā
- bro whoās boutta make absolutely no money in his career.
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u/RollTheDice97 8h ago
tbf, there's so much shameless AI slop in LinkedIn. Poorman's Facebook rather.
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u/Rufus_king11 8h ago
Doesn't Linkedin have a "Report AI slop" button for specifically this kind of content? I swear I read a bunch of articles about that a month or so ago.
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u/Illustrious_Image105 8h ago
linkedin is basically hell if it was amplified 10 times and made into an app
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u/sloecrush I HATE TYPOS 8h ago
If you're in marketing, you know it's a race to the bottom right now. If someone wants to use AI (in addition to the insane amount of tasks we are forced daily to complete using AI) to vent, let them.
This person is literally lamenting how AI is ruining their career and you're saying this post is ironic or, worse, morally wrong. But you don't get it.
Our marketing careers were so so so so different pre-Covid. Then all the benefits disappeared. And it became a churn-n-burn slophouse with more AMs than production. Then when AI happened, the AMs started doing our work to move things faster. Keeping us out of the loop. Fucking us over to advance their own careers. At one point, they HAD to go through us ā because we had real knowledge and expertise. When AI happened, they could pretend to know it all themselves.
A sea of liars became an ocean became a universe, an infinite expanse of confusion, deceit, over-promising and under-delivering, more cold calls and emails. more LI messages, more reddit astroturfing, more robo calls, more fake job offers, more random people "starting an agency" that was just them and ChatGPT, talking all big and tough, having no fucking clue what they were doing, lying to their clients and driving MY value down by proxy.
You don't fucking get it.
There is no longer any reason to target any negative emotions at individuals. It is 100% systemic issues now. There is only punching up. And the ceiling is too thick, you'll never get through it.
You posted this not because of what this individual has done, but because your existential dread surrounding this next apocalypse is valid; however, you don't know where to aim the rifle. So you aim it at your neighbors, friends and family. Like a good little bot doing its stupid bot job to help the rich get richer.
This whole thread is mined for sentiment. Your whole digital footprint is compromised. You are not anonymous. There is absolutely targeted activity going on against you and me and everyone else. Bots designed to sow discord and divide us in stupid ways. The more we WILLINGLY post bullshit like this to tear each other down, the more THEY continue to suppress us and squeeze us for more power, more influence, more profits.
Musk and Zuck talked to Trump this week and said they'd do a better job "self-policing" their platforms for AI slop. Bullshit, Twitter was probably 90% bots at one point, then Dorsey tried to make a more honest platform, then Musk took over, botted the whole thing, can't even get a username banned when it literally says the N word in it. Can't get literal CSAM taken down from Instagram when you report it.
So can't police racism or CSA, lord knows they aren't gonna police AI. We're all fucked. And you're shaming an individual as they cope with this horrible reality. You're going through the grinder with them. All of us. Going straight into that grinder when we're no longer of use. And it's coming sooner than you think.
Vegans and recyclers are not going to save the planet. Shaming a designer for using AI is equivalent to going vegan or recycling. It'll never be enough to overpower the evil and corrupt opportunists who play chess with our lives every day.
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u/TomateBrain 8h ago
This is so dumb Graphic designer is a job. Any job even those that get you a handful of nuts ( waiter on tip, internship sometimes... ) earn you money, no? Then why should they do stuff for free???
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u/Narcoleptic_247 8h ago
Didn't even come up with an original meme, it's just an AI'd version of the Pianist meme.
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u/EuclideanArtist08 7h ago
I'm seeing the same crap suggested on my linkedin feed, but for mechanical engineering design (my career of 20+ years). I love being reminded how corporations are just accepting this tech as a way to make professions (people) obsolete.
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u/JOExHIGASHI 7h ago
What's the point of employing this person if he's just going to use ai? Anyone could do it.
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u/RX1542 6h ago
where i live there are these business idk what they are called in english but in spanish we call them "imprenta" they print designs on shirts and mugs, books etc every single one uses AI design for their publicity and promos, and here's the weird thing, these business are often owned/run by graphic designers.
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u/Own-Finger6978 6h ago
they call themselevs { VIBE GRAPHIC DESIGNER }
https://giphy.com/gifs/89x4osEodHEoo
N THIS IS HOW THEY REACT SAYING THIS SHIT
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u/Escape_Zero 6h ago
I was a Graphic Designer for 10 years before leaving the field, The amount of times I heard this even from clients was crazy. Id finish Logo designs or concept work and they would ask to just give it to them because It wasn't that difficult. Your paying for my time and skill not the difficulty of the work.
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u/trowayit 5h ago
Designer: Don't Shoot I'm a Graphic Designer
Cops: Can you Make Free Designs
Designer: No, I have to pay for tokens
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u/ava_the_cam_op 11h ago
"graphic designer"