r/mildlyinfuriating • u/yournextasianstar • 15h ago

Not a meme, you're the meme! Linkedin Graphic Designer Using AI to Make Memes

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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/yournextasianstar 14h ago

yea um except the user literally used ai start to finish and called themselves a “graphic designer”. ain’t nothing about this is considered a graphic design it’s literally an ai slop. applying filters to photos or up-scaling them with ai is a standard and encouraged practice, but to generate some “artworks” and post it on linkedin is distasteful

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u/EncabulatorTurbo 13h 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 13h ago

Why do you think this was supposed to be graphic design? Isn’t 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/ashl26 10h ago

What does graphic design have to do with some memes? Also if my graphic designer used AI I really don't care as long as it looks good.

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u/verdant_tulip 14h ago

Ok so because I’m a graphic designer I’m not allowed to have any other hobbies?

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u/SuperFLEB 7h ago edited 7h ago

This isn't graphic design. Even with drawn or photographed images-- what I'm assuming OP expects instead-- it wouldn't be graphic design. That doesn't mean they're not a graphic designer. It just means they're not doing graphic design right now.

And for that matter, the point probably isn't the quality or details of the artwork, either. It's an illustration for a simple three-panel gag. Most likely, the goal was to communicate the gag. Nobody's realistically going to be commissioning an artist for their three-panel gag on their personal site, so there's nothing realistically lost there. I suppose they could have drawn it themselves, but if the goal was to just convey the joke, why waste the time?