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Comment by shortrounddev2

3 days ago

Personally I wouldn't use ai generated images in production. To me AI generated images are simply a curiosity or toy. Maybe placeholders while you get actual art created, but to use them in a final product is just anti-humanist

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mumbisChungo  3 days ago

I've been automating tasks away from humans for going on 25 years now. Unadulterated misanthropy.

  • jchw  2 days ago

    I see this sort of argument a lot, but I think it's too oversimplified, there's definitely a category difference between the kinds of automation we were doing before the recent generative AI boom and that we are now doing with generative AI. The type of stuff we were automating before was largely (though obviously, not entirely) stuff that I think nobody really wanted to have to do in the first place, like manually inputting a bunch of data or what have you. If there wasn't a category difference, then this wouldn't have been a big deal worth so much VC funds and market cap.

    That said, that's not my real reason to not use generative AI. My real reason to not use generative AI is that it still kinda sucks at fine details, and that annoys me greatly. These images have a great consistent style to them, but you can see that they're not really that clean. It's possible to tell at a glance, but really possible to see when you zoom in on them, especially depending on the icon. Whether this matters to you is up to taste; Personally, I'd rather have less detailed vector icons that are less technical but are very clean. If I really could do it, though, what I'd actually prefer is hand-crafted icons that are similar to these but with careful attention to detail and no weird artifacts when you pay too close of attention.

    I can see that people largely don't care. Some people just have no taste and will jam ugly image generations with obvious, blatant artifacts into their blog posts; you do you. Others will use generative AI carefully in a way where you're not immediately sure if it's gen AI or not, but you probably suspect it; I kinda dislike this, but I can 100% understand it. Thiings is kind of in that group.

    Very possible that some day soon genAI will be able to just produce perfect looking icons like this, no text errors, no weird artifacts, maybe even produce them in flawless looking vector SVGs or something. Maybe. For now though, it's tempting, but probably not for me.

    I would happily use these as inspiration or reference, though. The broad strokes are good, it's the details that bug me to no end.

    • tough  2 days ago

      ChatGPT 4o image generation is pretty good at icons/ui/ux, likewise with text, might require a re-roll and not one shot long texts but still...

      also, there's some genAI for SVG's too, so you could -modify- or tune-up these after a first AI gen if thats' your choice.

      imho these are tools and will be useful to augment current workflows, a human will be always required to -edit/curate- because thats' what we do