[WalterBright]

You're right.

But I like to add artwork to my presentations. My artistic skills have not advanced beyond 2nd grade. So I'll make a line sketch, and give to AI to "fix" it.

The results are nice and I use them.

I have no interest in learning how to do art well myself, so using AI for it is appropriate.

But I still write my code myself.

[wffurr]

>> The results are nice and I use them.

I haven't seen your presentations, so I can't speak to them. But I do know at work there's a lot more illustrations in docs and presentations and such, and they almost all have an AI art "tell". I find them grating and distracting from the actual content. Very rarely do they add anything useful to the doc other than the knowledge that the owner burned some GPU time and tokens for a distracting, low value illustration.

I can only imagine how an actual artist or graphic designer feels about it.

Actually I don't have to imagine; there's some serious vitriol over on some of my favorite webcomics about it.

[10000truths]

That's because of people who treat AI like a magical "give me a finished product" button. Someone whipping up PowerPoint slides tends to care more about saving time than maintaining quality - the (usually watermarked) stock photos of yore weren't exactly the zenith of artistic presentation either.

Like any other tool, the quality of output is proportional to the quality of input. You'll get much better results if you provide specifics (detailed description of what you want, reference pictures, iterative clarifications etc.) and have it work on bite-sized pieces of the process (outlining, shading etc.), with manual verification and touch-ups in between. But all that still requires time, taste and experience, which deflates the "AI will replace skilled labor" hype.

[wffurr]

>> the (usually watermarked) stock photos

I didn't care for those either but they didn't have the signature AI art "look" and they're usually real things that an actual artist or photographer made for or sold to the stock imagery company, which curated their collection.

[WalterBright]

I'm pretty sure my "D-Man" cartoons are not in some stock image collection. Ironically, I've received complaints that my hand-drawn and laboriously edited cartoons were derided as "unprofessional".

Having an on-topic cartoon goes well with the slides, rather than some random stock photo.

[WalterBright]

An example. The upper right drawing replaced the hand-drawn much cruder version I did 20 years go.

https://dlang.org/spec/iasm.html

I was quite pleased with the improvement.

[sph]

> But I still write my code myself.

Not for long, if you so easily have caved in to using AI elsewhere. People are lazy. If you see that the 'results are nice', it's game over for your programming/thinking.

Waiting for the day the advice will be to "enjoy AI assistance in moderation"

[WalterBright]

We'll see. I kinda suspect that vibe coding would take the joy out of it.