On April 21, the new ChatGPT Images 2.0 launched, enhancing the software’s ability to create AI-generated graphics. In the immediate aftermath, graphics made by the OpenAI product went viral on social media, with many disparaging human graphic designers.
“Yeah man designers are about to be jobless,” one X/Twitter user wrote on a post alongside AI-generated jersey swaps of soccer players Lamine Yamal and Eduardo Camavinga, which garnered more than 7,000 likes.
These posts left some graphic designers confused, and even defensive, about why people were demeaning their careers.
“The fact that people are out there defending legitimate robots is beyond me,” John Osborn, who has done design work with Bleacher Report and Electronic Arts, tells Front Office Sports.
Osborn, who says he “loves negativity toward AI,” has built up 17,000 X followers with his sports designs. AI social media discourse made its way into the pro sports sphere as well, with various teams like the Timberwolves, Borussia Dortmund, and the Saints denouncing AI art.
