When BBC News Brasil spoke to Lúcia, her expectation was to earn less than R$300 per month with the commissioned work.
Lúcia's example and the reports of other professionals show that illustrators are one of the groups of professionals in the creative industry who are at the forefront of the impact of the popularization of generative artificial intelligence (AI), that which creates new content, such as text, images, music, audio and videos, from a database.