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My new model when I encounter BS on a grand scale is to smile and not clarify anything. I just wait all VC funded crap designed without real UX research to die. It is that simple for me:)

I really miss Steve Jobs.:)

Fix the pricing. Figma is 20 USD monthly. Framer is 10, Webflow is 18, with hosting.

According to HN audience, the probability of Davos billionaires to conspire towards maximization of profit and control is non-existent. Evidence is false news. Only copium and hopium are the secret sauce of the future. Samuel Altman is the real wizard of the Golden billion. Hey, is someone tested the new toy demoed at Davos that reads your mind and shares it with your boss for performance evaluation? It looked promising, I want to invest.

So basically "fake it till you make it", "move fast and break things", "build it, and they will come" gave us the ultimate UX achievement: Offloading responsibility to the outside entity to be comfortably dumb.

What a dream, what progress for humanity. But hey, the money will be great, the opportunities will be immense. Rome is burning. Really. Burning.

Where are AI churches? Someone is not investing in the future of mankind.

I love the therm "hallucination", marketing geniuses at their best. Calling algorithmic junk which is a clear error by this "term" creates a positive image and enables more incorrectness from a technology which must serve humans.

So buckle up, the world of marketing and speculation will come to the ground with a big economic bang. Like it or not.

I saw this "trend" long time ago. Switched to Resolve and Studio One. Call me an old head, but there is something in using multiple displays and knowing that your software is platform-agnostic. :)

Uncomfortably, after leading several teams I lean to this direction, but I never forget that I am biased too.

The biggest unanswered question for me in recent years is how educated people with a tech background have trusted a big corporation which publicly stated years ago that they existence goal is to build the digital GOD (AGI). It's beyond my imagination. The same with OpenAI craze now. Why I would give my personal or corporate information to them or Microsoft? To learn more about my process patterns and RLHF their models for free? I understand the normies, they have no clue. But this?

So not only Slack will have all my business process data, OpenAI will know it too? Nice. We need more AI integration ASAP.

Move fast and break things. Ok.Computer.

This is great. I would start a company for tinfoil helmets immediately. Huge market. Big rewards.

I explained here that AI models which have no transparency over their data policy will get a big trouble on their heads. Only to be laughed at and downvoted to hell.

For a tech community, the lack of critical thinking here is disturbing. Things were more professional and rational in the 2008-2014 period on HN.

Since then, one must browse the downvoted comments to find some objective criticism.

Adobe obviously have a strong legal team with Firefly and are thinking ahead. Just saying.:)

I am using it with specific sequencing for different apps. One of the more strange use -cases is the combination of BTT and touch-bar-simmulator with Figma. Adding functionality to my vertical mouse and trackballs with different profiles for apps and so on.

Better Touch Tool changed the way that I operate. Sequencing of keys can make you a productive monster:) Practically speaking, I remove the use of short keys that require to break my fingers every day.

Useful for form of learning and experimentation. Not applicable, in my view, at all due to lack of ownership of the generated code. There is no ability to copyright and protect the intellectual output from generative AI processes.

Even when your prompts are clearly the pseudocode which creates the scope of the generated response. Until this situation is legally cleared, I will be very cautious to include LLM's outside rapid prototyping and conceptual phase. Not to mention the madness of AutoGPT or more realistic approach of LangChain.

It is early in the game and the Hype train is riding more rapidly than crypto and web3 combined.

I see a lot of AI startups introducing the same capabilities through OpenAI API and prompts, without consideration of prompt injection risk. So we will see who will survive.

This is a different use case. Why? Because you make a conscious decision to donate your work. The models which are used for image generating (Midjourney, Stable Diffusion) are full of scraped data without consent from the authors.

From this point of view, Adobe Firefly is obviously ahead:

"The current Firefly generative AI model is trained on a dataset of Adobe Stock, along with openly licensed work and public domain content where copyright has expired.

As Firefly evolves, Adobe is exploring ways for creators to be able to train the machine learning model with their own assets, so they can generate content that matches their unique style, branding, and design language without the influence of other creators’ content. Adobe will continue to listen to and work with the creative community to address future developments to the Firefly training models."

So the only way forward to have an ownership of your product is to train your own models over your own data.

Valuable processing info in the comments. But why so much effort to produce something without the option to have ownership (copyright) over my product? If I draw a strange line with any digital painting tool and put a circle and a square around, I sign this art and this is my Art. If a spend a day with prompting, upscaling, fixing with Control net in the end of the day I will have a funny picture which is not mine.

https://fortune.com/2023/02/23/no-copyright-images-made-ai-a...

Seriously?

I am sorry, didn't want to offend anybody. But this is obvious for a trained eye, which a professional must have.

It is mind-boggling how the "trends" and the non-stop race for validation make all lose their minds. How on earth a photo contest cannot see the false anatomy of the hands and person behind? Did someone in this concourse is actual photographer? Maybe not.

So, on AI generators. I am an artist, I have painted and photographed all my life. The average prompter has no chance to win against a professional. I know which artist is presented in the data set, how to use the light and composition. So basically speaking, this is the new Photoshop. The interesting question is what will hold long term more value in the future? The generated content or analogue product.

Maybe looking into the transhumanism future placed upon us the real hipster and nerds will be born. The fake ones will perish into AI driven oblivion.

Very informative and polite response. Thank you.

Maybe this is the most rational answer. We are flawed creatures, vanity, self-importance, greed, power. Who will watch the "watchers"? The good intentions are behind wars, behind removing gain of function research. But in reality, there is always a chance of some "lab" to leak the "agent" of destruction.

First answer for the trolling "argument": Because of freedom of speech.

Second answer: I am quite capable, technically speaking, to assess the technology. I don't see the benefits for humanity in A.I. "art" generators. And implementing A.I. outside the narrow use cases, which must be regulated in a form close to how we regulate nuclear energy, is not a good thing. Exponential growth is a reality with this one.

Outside the hype cycle, a lot of specialists are ringing the alarm bell already.

Dismissing their expertise because it represents an obstacle to startup and corporate ROI is not a form of rational thinking.

On the other hand, the signs are clear and finally the lack of empathy and ethics in tech industry will come to fruition.

Please, tell me your definition of trolling. Maybe after you help me understand, I will explain to the illustrators why they must prompt with text instead of drawing?

Assuming that I don't learn is wrong. I have a local installation of SD with a lot of models to test. The only useful thing in this gizmo is the Control Net module or maybe the Photoshop plugin for outpainting. You can upload your linear representation (sketch) and generate. But in essence, this is not progress.

I don't extend my drawing ability or produce any original work by synthesizing all the available artworks. The long term negative effects are obvious. After 3 to 5 years, kids will not bother to draw at all. In my view, this is not progress for humanity, there are a ton of scientific data about the importance of drawing for development of the mind.

The same applies to every human form of creation. You cannot beat the ultimate "calculator" with a model trained on all human intellectual production. Don't get me to start on corporations and greed and how they will view the necessity of human labor.

Yes. Like you.:)

I never give up. Just asked for information, to fight my own bias. Obviously there is a world outside which will have analogue and mechanical parts. But this is not the question.

The question is why to cut your wrists with a blunt object and stream the event for validation is suddenly a rational behavior?

This is cool, but I have a fundamental question. Why learn machine learning when all the machines will learn how to create and control themselves and powerful elites will offload the burden of governments to control us?

Or we race ourselves to fulfill the last jobs on earth? Is this progress for humanity or enslavement and the end of our species? I am serious. This question is honest. Maybe my IQ is too low to understand the logic of this innovation.

Maybe I have seen too much tech implementation doing bad stuff to humans, who knows? Please, enlighten me.

I simply have no trust in Microsoft. Data is the new petrol.:)

Maybe until we all have a local LLM's and custom models with full control, this level of abstraction(prompting) is not useful. I refuse to contribute to the"Open"AI scheme. Let marketing and teens to give them data.:)