brentpruitt

[source: https://twitter.com/affinitybyserif/status/1570728566350020608]

beyond disappointed… i recently purchased the affinity suite to rid myself of adobe. canva is a joke… a template, cookie-cutter solution for powerpoint presentations. not for industry professionals. this is a good 'exit strategy' for affinity shareholders. not so much for those looking for alternatives to the anti-user business models & corporate monopolies. affinity has just joined the 'good ol boys' club. & it is sad to see. i imagine it's too late for a refund.

😹 ya'll really did change the subject… i thought i was getting affinity spammed… >turning off notifications< 😆 but yea, AI is not new, nor scary… image recognition/training has been around for decades — think google's annoying recaptcha — they've gotten a lot of free labor for that tedious training… the algorithms have simply gotten better, hence hair/background isolation, content aware fill, what have you… now, this fashionable shiny "AI" emerges — ChatGPT, OpenAI, & Adobe's Firefly… all trained with copyright materials, without consent of the artists. there's more than enough documentation on that… [this can include Microsoft's Nonsense, Siri, Echo, etc use of private data] Adobe's business practices are completely against the artists & designers that use their software. their buggy software only improves when they acquire/integrate a smaller company's plugin. & they haven't done that in a while... maybe they'll hear that astute graphics is the only thing keeping illustrator afloat? they have a monopoly in the design industry. they hold artists' work hostage with an over-priced subscription. they are currently using the hard work of artists in their stock art store to train firefly. those artists are not allowed to opt out, if they want the additional income from adobe's stock art. so their style & creative vision is being muddied. this 'new' 'AI' is just another algorithm, quite plainly, built on theft. and i want nothing to do with it. ultimately, it's not up to me whether AI is integrated into affinity… unless serif wants to hire me… 😉 enough with adobe & AI… !!! maybe you'll find me in a wacom thread 🤪

this will become the MS version of apple's touchbar

i, for one, don't want AI in Affinity products. i am moving away from adobe products due to their push to AI, without improving core features & long standing bugs. AI has been trained on stolen artwork. adobe profits from AI-gen photos that are being used to create misinformation online. adobe does not give artists in their stock art store the ability to opt out of their AI training theft. despite the ability to opt-out of their firefly software features, i can't continue to financially support anti-artist policies/behavior. there is nothing intelligent in AI algorithms. focus on improving core features & make a solid product that will outlast the AI trend. surpass adobe's stale offerings.