I think firing your illustrator to replace them with Midjourney is like firing your developers and replacing them with Copilot. You still need someone to do the job, but now you got rid of the person who knew whether the result is actually good. We might as well get rid of photographers and illustrate our news with cell phone pictures while we're at it.
If a company needs to generate illustrations at a big enough pace to require an employee they'd only be replacing their illustrator with a worse one. We all know what happens to GUIs when programmers develop them, so why would this case be any different?
> We might as well get rid of photographers and illustrate our news with cell phone pictures while we're at it.
Wait... Hasn't this already happened? Professional/specialized press photography seems way down compared to pre-smartphone era? Now a journalist/reporter is expected to do a passable photo job on their own. Or a random member of the public
If a company needs to generate illustrations at a big enough pace to require an employee they'd only be replacing their illustrator with a worse one. We all know what happens to GUIs when programmers develop them, so why would this case be any different?