Dumb Business Man With Vested Interest, Makes Dumb Statements About Artists/Creatives in Regards to AI. Buy His New Software...oh yeah, "Subscribe"

Pandora's Box has been opened. No going back it seems. I've been using Adobe Creative suite for 15 yrs 17 yrs now (geez), mainly for work related things.
I get they're trying to stay in business with these features, at the core I think it's a 'have to' rather than a 'want to'. Fwiw, I've not used any "AI" features in Adobe yet, except for general fixes/cleanup in PS with content-aware fill, but that's been around for years already. I mainly use Illustrator and that's all "manual" work.
I've used AI image generators for fun, especially with some of the Challenge track thumbnails. It's legitimately fascinating to me, but I can see where this is going, and I think the whole thing will become a very dark place. It doesn't take a genius to figure out the implications.
 
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FuzzyAce said:
Pandora's Box has been opened. No going back it seems. I've been using Adobe Creative suite for 15 yrs now, mainly for work related things.
I get they're trying to stay in business with these features, at the core I think it's a 'have to' rather than a 'want to'. Fwiw, I've not used any "AI" features in Adobe yet, except for general fixes/cleanup in PS with content-aware fill, but that's been around for years already. I mainly use Illustrator and that's all "manual" work.
I've used AI image generators for fun, especially with some of the Challenge track thumbnails. It's legitimately fascinating to me, but I can see where this is going, and I think the whole thing will become a very dark place. It doesn't take a genius to figure out the implications.
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I remember when the content aware fill came in.....

I was like, I just paid a shit ton for the cs4 suite....
Along with the semester of tuition I paid...along with books....and this feature just took away like 40 percent of the work ...which cool....but....

This is why I couldn't find a reasonable paying job, that didn't expect me to know how to use every single piece of software that I had to buy on my own to learn.....along with IT and Computer Science knowledge.....

Sorry.....I think creativity is a purely human endeavor, and I don't take creative tips from an MBA.....just saying

I also liked how he shit all over their older versions....just because it didn't contain the AI....

Most places I worked at never updated their computers or software....when cs4 was out ...I was still using CS2.....

Don't even get me going about quark or InDesign......

Sorry ...my head is all over the place
 
likitlikeyoulikeit said:
I remember when the content aware fill came in.....

I was like, I just paid a shit ton for the cs4 suite....
Along with the semester of tuition I paid...along with books....and this feature just took away like 40 percent of the work ...which cool....but....

This is why I couldn't find a reasonable paying job, that didn't expect me to know how to use every single piece of software that I had to buy on my own to learn.....along with IT and Computer Science knowledge.....

Sorry.....I think creativity is a purely human endeavor, and I don't take creative tips from an MBA.....just saying
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I was fortunate, I got my foot in the door the old-fashioned way (I knew somebody) :grin in my previous career. That surely didn't keep me there, I had to prove my worth. No college degree, so that put me in... I'm guessing the .5% of people there? Thankfully I picked up the software knowledge quickly and had a great trainer early on. I was on a team that was made up of creatives with a more technical way of thinking. So found my happy place and branched out from there. But I don't miss the corporate setting anymore, so much about it that drains the soul. Glad I moved on from it.
 
likitlikeyoulikeit said:
and this feature just took away like 40 percent of the work ...which cool....but....
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That's the best case scenario. There have been plenty of tech advances that have made work easier, or increased the output, while the human is still at the helm.

But reading the article, I actually agree with Adobe’s President of Digital Media, David Wadhwani. He says:

“I think there will be a thirst for artists who do things by hand. In the last decade I can take a picture and run it through a process that makes it look like a painting, but I’m not going to value that ‘painting’ the same way I would an artist who actually took the time to make a real painting.”

I feel like the people generally most hyped about AI are people who couldn't draw much more than a stick figure, because they can now generate things that look like art.

Similarly, the MBAs who see people as costs on an Excel sheet are the ones who would prefer to remove the human out of the equation and think AI will be the savior that will create their ads, business logic etc with nothing more than a few prompts.
 
laxu said:
That's the best case scenario. There have been plenty of tech advances that have made work easier, or increased the output, while the human is still at the helm.

What these MBAs want to do is take the human out of the equation because to them, they are just a cost on an Excel sheet.

But reading the article, I actually agree with Adobe’s President of Digital Media, David Wadhwani. He says:

“I think there will be a thirst for artists who do things by hand. In the last decade I can take a picture and run it through a process that makes it look like a painting, but I’m not going to value that ‘painting’ the same way I would an artist who actually took the time to make a real painting.”
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Never trust a business man. Period.
 
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