worst than canva.....

[WildWestDesigns]

I was retired once, and back, starting to think I'm too old for all this new stupidity they pass off as intelligence.

While convenience has gotten better, we have lost the knowledge of what is being abstracted. Even with computers in general, most kids don't know about file hierarchy, most are used to have things auto save and not only that, save in the cloud. And they have only known tech (problem is most didn't grow up while the tech was growing up as well). And that's just the milder stuff.

With what passes for "AI" (and it's not really "AI", but that's just marketing for the normies) is this on steroids. Even people that know what it's abstracting, still have a problem and are less efficient (studies have already come out on this since this stuff has been out for awhile).

Just more of the downward spiral.

I'm just glad that when I was growing up, people still had to know what was what (and still had to have talent/skill to make it happen) and it was before computers first, analog second. Now don't mistake this as someone that thinks we all should be doing things analog/old school every single time, but it's that knowledge that is lost with high level tech abstractions that is lost that this is more of a concern over. I used to think see what happens with the 3rd/4th generation of users of what passes for "AI", but it doesn't even look like it's going to be that long of a wait. Will it get better, I wouldn't be surprised, but that would be even more of a concern of that lost knowledge.

 

[Bobby H]

The AI stuff is a pain in the ass to deal with. It may be okay for one-off print-only jobs. But if you need clean artwork with work-able elements the AI-generated stuff is just garbage. All of it is based on pixel-based sources. Even the "text to vector" functions in Adobe Illustrator start with a pixel-based image and then is auto-traced into vector form. You're not going to get the same exact result from a text prompt each time either. It's like playing a slot machine. 3 purely random options pop into view.

AI is particularly bad for use in logo/branding design. It might be okay to use in the ideation phase for brain-storming. But the text prompts will not generate clean, consistent results every time. You might be able to get a decent starting point, but then you have to clean it up and refine it afterward.

I'm sure plenty of folks will churn out a lot of crap with these AI tools though. Good enough to barely get by is the quality standard for more than a few cut-rate shops as well as customers wanting to get something for nothing. Race to the bottom economics.