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My point is people aren’t expecting AGI. People have already tried them and understand what the general capabilities are. Businesses today even more. I don’t think exaggerating the capabilities is such an overarching issue, that anyone could call the whole thing a scam.
Do they though? No one I talked to, not my coworkers that use it for work, not my friends, not my 72 year old mother think they are sentient.
I don’t understand why this is so important, marketing is all about exaggerating, why expect something different here.
I don’t think anyone is so stupid to believe current ai can solve everything.
And honestly, I didn’t see any marketing material that would claim that.
Those are two different things.
they are craming ai everywhere because nobody wants to miss the boat and because it plays well in the stock market.
the people claiming it’s awesome and that they are doing I don’t know what with it, replacing people are mostly influencers and a few deluded people.
Ai can help people in many different roles today, so it makes sense to use it. Even in roles that is not particularly useful, it makes sense to prepare for when it is.
I think in many cases people intentionally or unintentionally disregard the time component here. Ai is in development. I think what is being marketed here, just like in the stock market, is a piece of the future. I don’t expect the models I use to be perfect and not make mistakes, so I use them accordingly. They are useful for what I use them for and I wouldn’t use them for chess. I don’t expect that laundry detergent to be just as perfect in the commercial either.
I don’t think ai is being marketed as awesome at everything. It’s got obvious flaws. Right now its not good for stuff like chess, probably not even tic tac toe. It’s a language model, its hard for it to calculate the playing field. But ai is in development, it might not need much to start playing chess.
…or a simple counter to count the r in strawberry. Because that’s more difficult than one might think and they are starting to do this now.
Funny. I’m thinking some people made a lot of money.
On the other hand, I think Lemmy folks would be pleased, that an ai company didn’t harm the environment 😀
Yeah but nobody buys it at full price. You can get it for 35 by just asking. Thats most likely not the highest subscription of the person using their apps.
And I don’t want to defend them at all. Finally I don’t need them anymore after almost 20 years. Stoked about it.
That works. I think I could probably get away with using Inkscape instead of illustrator, but it would be a struggle, because with it I can’t copy paste vectors to other apps. InDesign is completely alone in it’s category.
Adobe is the standard everyone uses. You can’t be a pro and collaborate without it.
It’s like 35€ per month. There are so many subscriptions out there now. Everything is a subscription. 35€ isn’t even that much anymore, considering all the apps you get.
Exactly, you are not their target user.
Many people, including myself until recently, would also do a lot to rid themselves of adobe, but for us it just isn’t possible.
On the other hand, their subscription isn’t that high, compared to so many other subscriptions.
You would be wrong. There is nothing close to Photoshop and many others. Sadly that is the case.
Extremely interesting. Some technical challenges remain, but so many applications if solved.
Great thread, thanks everyone
Honestly, affinity is just a company. They will make a Linux version if it makes business sense for them and it won’t. Adobe is far ahead in almost every way. Their software is competing in the market of amateurs. And for an amateur, it should make more sense to pick up Gimp, inkspace. Affinity publisher is ok, but pros will have adobe and for anything less inkspace or figma free tier is good enough. Affinity has no market.
You hate ai or not, maybe you just found one more excuse to be an asshole online, don’t know, don’t care, bye.
You are insulting a person, because they said ai helps them.
Your comment is on capitalism, not scaling ai or ai being used with effect.
I like tab coding, writing small blocks of code that it thinks I need. Its On point almost all the time. This speeds me up.