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How flourishing is the hustle? 

Let’s just say it’s a great side job. The pay isn’t exorbitant; neither is the work. At least for now. For example, designer Justin Reckling, working with PromptBase, typically sells between three and five prompts per day, with each prompt averaging between $2 and $5. At this rate, a designer will have to create and sell at least a thousand prompts a month to make a decent living.

Do we really need prompt artists? 

We do if we want art with depth, colour schemes, some renaissance elements, etc.  Prompt artists/engineers are familiar with terms like “hyper-realistic,” “macro photography,” “octane render,” “hyper-detailed,” “cinematic lighting,” “long shot,” “middle shot,” etc. It gives them better understanding of how to add depth and detail to the artwork and how to control the distance and focus. 

For example, something like the nail art design (below) might include the positions of the hands, the angle of the pseudo-photographic shot, and instructions to produce different manicure styles and themes.

How is this any different from paying someone to draw a sketch for you?

It’s accessible! The easy-to-use tools of assisted art, music and voices enable individuals or small businesses to make their vision, like game, animation or VR experience, come true without investors and multi-million budgets.

However, from the artist standpoint, it gets frustrating. Once this tech matures, how can digital artists realistically make a career? Many artists and critics have called this business ‘a way to take the last semblance of creativity out of the equation!’

While US manufacturing activity slows down, the services sector is what’s keeping the American economy afloat, recent data suggests.

Growth in the services sector accelerated in August for the second month in a row, according to the Institute for Supply Management index released Tuesday.

Reasons: Companies benefit from a slowdown in inflation and more reliable supply chains. 

Results: For now, the services sector is helping the US weather the global slowdown better than other countries. Seems like the risks of the US tumbling into a recession are lower than, say, in China or Germany, which rely more heavily on manufacturing.

The positive data also works to complicate predictions of the upcoming policy changes as US Federal Reserve policymakers are set to discuss interest rates on Sept. 21 and 22.

The quintessential meme stock, GameStop’s stock price has long been untethered to business fundamentals. Here are some interesting number from its Q2 results.

• $1.136 billion: Net sales
• 4%: Decrease from the same period last year
• $108.7 million: Losses during the quarter
• 43%: Increase in losses from the same period last year
• 10%: Increase in stock price in after-hours trading on Wednesday

Right as the market closed, GameStop announced a partnership with the cryptocurrency exchange FTX. There's a possibility that this partnership could have resulted in the uptick of the men stock price. But you might want to check Reddit sub-groups just to be sure.