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None of them feel like tools, at best you have to force them to be that, but are still really bad at it, see vibe coding and "AI-assisted" or higher effort AI images.

It's also like they skipped a few steps too. I think an actual synonym search could be way more useful than a sycophantic chatbot built into my text editor (wonder if something like that already exist). At least in case of animation I heard some frame interpolation tool actually made for artists got trashed due to their makers wanted to hop onto the still in-infancy full-on generative AI bandwagon.

However I have to give it to them when it comes to amazing outsiders. They often already thought digital art or composing on the PC was something like what the AI was, only they didn't know what button to press.

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[–] HetareKing@piefed.social 5 points 2 days ago

Yeah, that's the big irony of this all: natural language is pretty much the worst way of conveying information for any task that's even slightly technical. There's a reason why architects don't just tell the construction workers what the building is supposed to look like.

The one thing it does have going for it is accessibility, but unfortunately, it doesn't lead to transferable skills. Like, if you do something like building with Legos, cardboard crafts, make collages from magazine clippings etc. and you want to start doing something more advanced, say, carpentry or graphic design, then what you've learned previously is still valuable. But if you just vaguely order an AI around until in produces something that "looks about right", all you've gained is the skill set of a clueless executive and the limits of the model are your limits.