[AI in Affinity]

AI is cool. AI is scary. AI is not always necessary.

The Generate tool in Photoshop is cool when you use a selection and no prompt. Using with a prompt requires a tutorial because it's limited to what you can say and how you say it. (I use it at work. Not at home.)

I don't want Serif to jump on the bandwagon and add AI functionality just to be like all the others out there. Like their Affinity line, I hope that they are just hanging back to let the world rush their ideas along and waiting until the time is right to strike with a more original approach to AI.

We love their software because it gave us something that the almighty Adobe still hasn't: a fully integrated suite that allows you to edit an image without leaving your layout. No one has replicated that as far as I know. So even without AI, they still offer a revolutionary product for designers, in my opinion.

Topaz Labs, I believe, has the best enlargement tool (Gigapixel). Their AI-based tools are great and are also not subscription-based. And their AI isn't based off of AIs of today.

I don't want Affinity to miss out on possible AI opportunities but I also don't want them to just copy what all the others out there are doing.

[JSON error -- looking for help]

Trying out Data Merge for the first time in Publisher. I checked my JSON code with an online validator to confirm its syntax but Publisher keeps giving me this error when I try to upload my file...

Error parsing JSON file:
in Json::Value::operator[](ArrayIndex): requires arrayValue

Does Publisher not accept JSON with blank arrays? Is that what this is saying?