Artists are losing work, wages, and hope as bosses and clients embrace AI
bloodinthemachine.com Created: October 7, 2025 Updated: February 25, 2026 article
Summary
Visual artists, illustrators and graphic designers share their stories about how AI is being used to lower wages, degrade work and even replace it altogether, in this installment of AI Killed My Job.
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Curator's note
Artists devastated by AI: impossible costumes; agency illus gone; child book poverty/suicide; Photoshop teaching dead; game textures AI; doc B-roll studios close; freelance low-pay slop fixes. Identity/worth eroded beyond wages.