Huh, no idea what's up with your account man, sorry about that. But I don't think it's a pathetic attempt at all. Honestly the best thing they can do at this point is embrace AI and go with the flow, developing services around it, and I'd say this move is how to start in that direction.
Agreed but there are lots of other cases like mine where I didn’t need consistency. In such cases that is work directly taken away from an illustrator.
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I don't think you and I would be the target audience. I also don't think it's necessarily desperate. Looks more like embracing the future to me.