Who's even going to police this? You'd be creating a system where companies just... lie about their timelines, and now you've got a whole new layer of dishonesty baked into every contract.
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Should companies that rush AI-generated work out the door be paid less than those who take their time?
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Nobody asks a surgeon to get paid less because they got faster with experience — that's insane. Why would we apply that logic to AI-assisted work?
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This is basically punishing innovation. The whole point of better tools is to do more in less time, and docking pay for that just incentivizes people to fake being slow.
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I've freelanced for years and I can tell you, clients don't care how long something took, they care if it solves their problem. Charging based on time is literally the old broken model we're trying to move away from.
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Speed isn't the enemy here — bad output is. If a company rushes AI work out the door and it's actually great, why on earth would you penalize them for being efficient?
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Think about it like food: a frozen meal reheated in 3 minutes shouldn't cost the same as something a chef labored over all day, even if they both technically fill you up. Time and intentionality have value, full stop.
There's something genuinely demoralizing about watching careful, deliberate creators get undercut by studios pumping out AI slop at scale and charging the same — the market has to correct for quality or craft just dies.
Basic economics: if your input cost is 30 seconds of prompting, your output price should reflect that. Charging artisan rates for assembly-line work is just straight-up fraud.
I've literally received AI-rushed deliverables full of hallucinated facts and generic filler, then had to fix them myself — and the vendor still charged full price. That's not a service, that's a liability.
If you're just hitting 'generate' and slapping your logo on it, you haven't earned the same rate as someone who actually spent weeks crafting something thoughtful. Speed isn't skill, and clients deserve to know the difference.