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by mmackh 1349 days ago
Excel or Numbers, backed with data, would have been the right tool for this job.

However, once the wow-factor for text to image AI wears off, you start to realize:

a) “AI” doesn’t understand anything about the real world (physics, proportions, shapes, etc.) You curate and pick the image that makes most sense. You start to settle.

b) TTI “AI” can never evolve and become better than the data it’s been trained on. It can combine things for sure, but it will won’t start evolving and become a master artist.

c) Limited applicability - there’s always going to be an edge case in every image that’s going to look off (strange blends, non-perfect circles, coloring…). You need to be a creative and know how to use photoshop to fix this stuff.

Right now it’s cool for creating album art, but that’s easy [1]. Generally I just hope that creative people aren’t too worried about “AI”, otherwise we’ll run out of training data.

[1] https://www.intheknow.com/post/album-cover-challenge-tiktok/