It Finally Happened...I Had A Nervous Breakdown On A Podcast Fighting For You.
Here’s the thing: I absolutely, 100%, without hesitation, hate everything about what’s happening with AI clones of creatives. This isn’t innovation. It’s creative extinction dressed up as "progress."
I got pretty fired up talking about this on Bob Knorpp's The Beancast this week, and honestly? I could have had a full-on nervous breakdown right there on the mic. Because what we’re watching isn’t the next chapter of creative work. It’s the beginning of a massive devaluation of human creativity at scale.
Here’s what’s happening with fashion models , and why you should care even if you’re not in fashion:
Brands like H&M are now cloning real models into AI digital twins. These AI copies don’t sleep. They don’t age. They don’t complain. They don’t ask for more money, creative input, or health insurance.
And brands are pitching this as a "win" for the models:
“You’ll work while you sleep! Your AI clone will book gigs for you!”
Bullshit. They’ll use your face, your body, your personal brand, and once they've got enough cloned models? You’re no longer needed.
They won't just replace the model. They’ll replace the entire ecosystem: stylists, photographers, makeup artists, set designers, all the people who make creative magic happen, because suddenly, every ad, every photo shoot, every runway walk can happen inside a server farm without a single human on set.
Today it's models. Tomorrow it's actors. Then writers. Then marketers. Then you.
This is about infinite inventory. Owning infinite versions of you, without paying the real you anymore.
And it gets worse. Because while this is happening in fashion, Fiverr, the bottom-feeders of the freelance economy, is making their own play:
Fiverr just launched a feature where freelancers can train an AI on their creative style to "work less and earn more."
It sounds harmless. It’s a trap.
Here’s how this really plays out:
You spend time and talent training the AI to mimic your voice, your design style, your creative instincts.
Fiverr builds a massive library of "creative styles" from hundreds (soon thousands) of freelancers.
Then Fiverr sells work generated by AI imitating you, faster, cheaper, easier, without you ever seeing another penny.
They won't need you once they’ve extracted your creative DNA. You’ll be a line item in their AI warehouse.
"Congratulations, you’re now a preset."
And given Fiverr’s long, sketchy history of treating freelance creatives like disposable batteries, do you honestly think they’ll protect your rights or your paycheck once they can scale your style without paying for it?
Come on.
This is a full-blown creative mugging happening in broad daylight. And most people are still too hypnotized by shiny tech promises to realize it.
We need to take a real stand, right now.
Support companies that pay humans for human work.
Stop training the algorithms that are being weaponized against you.
Stop believing that "efficiency" and "scale" are neutral words. They aren’t.
Defend the messy, brilliant, imperfect thing that only real creatives can do: make something that moves people.
Because once you're just another "style" or "voice profile" living inside a server rack in someone else's ad farm, you’re not a creator anymore. You’re just inventory.
And I didn’t fight this hard to build a creative career just to be erased by a line of code. Neither should you.
Stay human. Stay fighting. Stay necessary.
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