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Comment by well_ackshually

3 hours ago

Also, nobody would have complained about "content aware face fill", "AI" image edition tools have been standard for ten years in Photoshop

I remember CS2 making big news with the "healing brush", that's like 20 years ago or something like that.

  • That wasn’t an AI tool at all, though. Neither is pre-2023 content-aware fill, AFAIK.

    They are both PatchMatch (well the healing brush certainly is), which is a heroic bit of code. Entirely deterministic statistical algorithm. Not AI by really any definition (including back then)

    • Probably not you, but on this very forum there are plenty who will argue that LLMs / AI are entirely deterministic and that given enough time, a chisel, and sufficient clay tablets, any AI output can be calculated by hand.

      I don’t know enough about anything to determine which opinion is correct.

      Is AI output not just matrix multiplication and a random seed?

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    • In my mind, it's as much "AI" as "AI Slate ID" introduced in this release, which I guess was kind of the point of what GP said.