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• u/CandidLeg8036·31·1 Ağu 2026 16:48

  Nope. Don’t include it. It’s something you can talk about in an interview. But by putting a statement, you’re already limiting yourself and coming off as pretentious. AI sucks but it can also be a useful tool. By including a statement, you’re telling prospective employers you won’t use some tools at hand because YOU think it’s bad and that you’re not a team player.

  • u/Useful-Advantage-850·1·1 Ağu 2026 18:14

    Using or not using AI doesn't make you a "team player."

• u/kounterfett·44·1 Ağu 2026 16:48

  Bro a 10 paragraph manifesto on why you don't want to use AI isn't going to get you a job. You're spending all the attention capital you've got when someone is looking at your resume complaining instead of convincing them you're right for the job. If you really feel you need to make a statement about AI make it a couple paragraphs at most as part of your cover letter. Nobody is going to read your this on top of your cover letter and your resume

  • u/AxlLight·1·1 Ağu 2026 17:58

    Or better yet, write about your own creative process and the tools you do use instead of spending time and effort discussing something you don't use.  I'll akin it to writing against digital art 20-30 years ago, a much better statement then would've been about hand drawing, adhering to old school methods and giving it that extra touch.  Here, just say the same, about the pros of the manual process, about the discovery when you do it yourself and about producing high quality visuals that have great fidelity because every pixel was manually created.

• u/LanguidLandscape·3·1 Ağu 2026 16:49

  I don’t have any advice but am in a similar boat and think this is an important topic and way of positioning oneself. Hopefully some good thoughts and advice are forthcoming.

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• u/sabayoki·10·1 Ağu 2026 16:50

  its too long nobody gonna read it anyways

• u/TheSlipperyCircle·4·1 Ağu 2026 17:02

  Absolutely do not include this. I’m not religious in any way but I don’t need to rewrite the bible and include in my CV in order to say so. Hopefully you get my point but absolutely have an opinion on AI but don’t let that opinion get in the way of appearing like a good candidate!

• u/MorsaTamalera·2·1 Ağu 2026 17:03

  I think you would be better off using these thoughts to better articulate your stance if somebody asks you about it during an interview or a project. I don't think many people would be interested in this being on your documents, and somebody might discard you just because of it.

• u/Wide-Pollution-3275·8·1 Ağu 2026 17:16

  Dude, you used fucking AI to write a statement claiming that you don’t use AI. You’d get clocked as a liar right away.

• u/Cormamin·9·1 Ağu 2026 17:22

  I hate AI too. Just say you love it and then do your job well enough that they don't have to ask you to use it.

  • u/Useful-Advantage-850·1·1 Ağu 2026 18:14

    This is 100% the correct answer.

• u/aivi_mask·1·1 Ağu 2026 17:24

  Nope. This is one of those things that A. no potential employer wants to read and B. shows a refusal to adapt to changing and advancing technology. You can dislike AI, that's fine. But the technology is not going anywhere and will not be rejected by the greater professional population. Just like there are designers who would be clueless without Adobe products, there is a generation being educated right now that will one day be Clueless without AI assistance. I don't like it and I don't see good things happening as a result of it but if you want to keep getting jobs you have to show flexibility when it comes to adapting to modern technology

• u/ojonegro·1·1 Ağu 2026 17:27

  Start a Substack and add that to your socials, LinkedIn, etc. This is great Substack or Medium content but no recruiter much less design manager is gonna read that.

• u/stanhoboken·2·1 Ağu 2026 17:29

  As someone who hires graphic designers, I would actually appreciate this. I’m afraid people I hire are secretly using it. To each their own, but for my projects, I maintain a workflow that never touches AI. Why? Because i can and I prefer to release work in my own proprietary way. I don’t care what’s efficient or practical, this workflow produces certain results.

  • u/LetsGetPhisycal·1·1 Ağu 2026 18:41

    So when you click on someone’s portfolio you would not be shocked and turned off they have some random wall of text about their personal opinion on ai. The portfolio is about the work and a little bit about the person.

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• u/CatHairAndChaos·2·1 Ağu 2026 17:29

  No one will read that, and if anything it will only hurt your chances of getting hired. Maybe try to memorize the key points you've articulated here and say them during the interview if you're asked about AI.

• u/True_Window_9389·4·1 Ağu 2026 17:33

  Sorry dawg but this isn’t even a good approach to AI in design and will be repellant to employers. AI in design isn’t a one size fits all kind of thing. While I’d agree that the field shouldn’t turn us into prompt monkeys where we do no actual designing, to argue that AI has *no* place at all anywhere in design is way more extreme than it needs to be. We can all incorporate it in some way that still leaves us plenty of creative space as humans. Ultimately, that’s what employers would want to see. I don’t know if there’s an expectation of us using AI for literally everything, but it can be helpful in concept development, content creation, compliance checking, exposing gaps, research, workflow and process improvement and so on. None of that is taking away from the human creative process unless you let it, and so having a blanket *no* will not be helpful when searching for employment. If anything, employers are looking for how you’d split the difference. They do want creative input by humans while also finding efficiencies from AI, and they’re not mutually exclusive.

  • u/c-w-jones·1·1 Ağu 2026 19:37

    Agree. I put the focus on using AI to deal with redundant tasks that have nothing to do with creativity.

• u/SignedUpJustForThat·5·1 Ağu 2026 17:38

  TL;DR: _OP used AI to write a manifesto in which he claims that he wants to work without AI._

• u/pennyx2·2·1 Ağu 2026 17:39

  This is way too long and kind of pretentious. Somewhere in the middle you seem to concede that AI can create work that sells, which isn’t at all what I think you want to say. If you must say something, add a sentence or two, something like, “I keep up with new tools and technology, but I’ll never rely on AI to drive my work. I believe people create the work that connects best with other people, and connection and communication is the heart of effective design.”

• u/PoorlyDesignedCat·2·1 Ağu 2026 17:40

  Nobody will read that during the hiring process

• u/Extra_Preparation_66·1·1 Ağu 2026 17:54

  Ai is a tool for efficiency not a replacement. Its there to enhance much like photoshop Illustrator back in the day when all was hand drawn. Use it dont ignore it. Or the design world will move past you.

• u/kasparallenbach·1·1 Ağu 2026 18:01

  It is simple. If the client is one of those delusional I say I made his thing with AI, although it isn't true. I'm much faster without AI. But the current trend is, that everything with AI is better. Your text is fine for your own self-finding. But the client doesn't care at all.

• u/superluminal·1·1 Ağu 2026 18:06

  No one wants to read a dissertation to determine if they want to hire you.

• u/Useful-Advantage-850·1·1 Ağu 2026 18:13

  I'll be completely honest: As someone who hires copywriters, designers and art directors, I wouldn't even read 1/4 of that. Probably wouldn't read any of it. The top 5 things I care about:

  1. Your work
  2. Your work
  3. Your work
  4. Your work
  5. Your work

• u/rmarter·1·1 Ağu 2026 18:20

  Dude… just put “I don’t use gen AI”. That will suffice.

• u/LetsGetPhisycal·1·1 Ağu 2026 18:39

  Bro they wanna see if you are good at deisgn. Not your personal philosophy. I thought this was gonna be about someone giving you an ai logo and how you went about making it a reality. Not this rant. How would that even be displayed on a website? A whole tab for ai you click it and then it’s just a mountain of text.

• u/nxlk·1·1 Ağu 2026 18:44

  holy cornball

• u/jayalex74·1·1 Ağu 2026 18:48

  Don’t include it. Way too long and you’re wasting their time. I’m on the hiring side and what I wanna know is: \-what projects included ai and tell me the process \-what projects had zero ai involvement \- what is your ai process and workflow and at what stages are you using

• u/Virtual-Guard-7209·1·1 Ağu 2026 18:53

  As a 20 year marketer and designer who is using AI daily for work. It has been a game changer in a lot of the mundane parts of our work and can greatly help enhance our processes. I approach AI with human judgment. It's also an amazing learning tool. I really think you are doing yourself a disservice by framing your work as dismissing AI because our work is about human communication.

• u/Swisst·1·1 Ağu 2026 19:54

  Don’t include this. Nobody is going to read a blog as part of a portfolio. At best you should include some short samples.  Beyond that this essay doesn’t read as someone who’s has wrestled with AI and design. There aren’t concrete examples and  lot of what is here is caricature and swinging at straw men. Regardless of where my company landed on the topic, I’d be looking for someone who has given real thought to the issue, can advise the company on responsible use, and can articulate the pros and cons. Someone who’s so firmly planted themselves on either end of the AI spectrum is a liability to the work and process.