Still annoyed about that AI art generator fail at the conference last week

I was at the InnovateTech conference in Austin on Tuesday, watching a demo of this new AI image generator that was supposed to sketch out UI wireframes in seconds. The presenter typed in a prompt and it gave us a weird blob with 8 fingers holding a coffee cup - it was useless. How are these companies charging $30 a month for tools that can't even handle basic human anatomy? Has anyone actually found a reliable AI for design work that doesn't freak out on simple stuff?

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the_susan15d ago

You're being a little harsh here. The demo was a beta, and these tools are learning at a ridiculous pace. Eight fingers on a hand is funny, sure, but the fact that it understood "person holding a coffee cup" at all is kind of wild. You have to remember that a year ago these models couldn't even make a face that looked human. For $30 a month, you get something that can throw up a decent draft in seconds, not a finished product. The real value is in the iteration, not the first pass. Designers who lean on these tools for rough concepts are saving hours, even if the outputs are goofy sometimes. Maybe the problem isn't the AI, it's expecting magic from a beta tool.

jamesm3815d ago

And honestly, if you're using these for drafts, just set a hard rule for yourself: no more than three generations before you pick the least bad one and move on. You'll waste way more time trying to fix the eighth finger than just sketching over the weird hand in five minutes. The trick is knowing when to stop asking the AI and start doing the actual work yourself.