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Re: Microsoft Designer

#41
post #35

The next product announcement where Microsoft incorporates AI as a central feature will cause me to roll my eyes. I expect we'll see a dozen or more of these this year. They are ultimately just repackaging models discussed here in a user friendly UI. This would look a lot more promising if Microsoft had a stronger track record for applications, which has been hit or miss.

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Re: Microsoft Designer

#42
post #40

So graphic designers will be out of jobs because of Microsoft?

Ugh... this looks more like a meme generator than an actual change in the industry.

It looks like it opens AI art to the masses which is probably a net positive.

Re: Microsoft Designer

#43
post #28

I expect hoards of graphic designers to arrive at Redmond with pitchforks and torches this afternoon.

Graphic designers tend not use microsoft tools. I mean , when is the last time you saw someone fire up MS Publisher for a professional graphics project?

Re: Microsoft Designer

#45

Microsofts 3D video team always put all this effort into making the uis look good and fluid but it's all just fantasy, the disconnect between what the marketing team is saying it is and what the reality of their software is jarring.

The video is way too fast, I could barely tell what was going on. If you scroll past the video, the feature screenshots and animations are way more compelling.

I agree it's overwhelming

Re: Microsoft Designer

#46
Many snarky comments here because, Microsoft + AI. Maybe, but I don't think this is looking to replace stable diffusion or DALL-E.

This is going after Canva and if it gets bundled into your existing 365 subscription it can be a compelling offer for millions of SMEs and consumers on that stack already (especially if it integrates well with Word/Outlook/etc).

Re: Microsoft Designer

#47
post #40

So graphic designers will be out of jobs because of Microsoft?

There are a million newsletters and other mailings sent out by random employees without any formal education in design. The kind of people who used Comic Sans and Word Art, if you still remember.

Companies that send out professionally designed mailings won't start sending half-assed AI generated stuff.

Re: Microsoft Designer

#48
I feel a deep sadness, a sympathy, or sense of loss for the countless artists who have toiled to produce beautiful works over the decades (centuries?), just for them to be approximated by a single click as a vector mashup in an AI generative search space. And without so much as a by your leave.

I'm not saying it's logical to be against AI image generation, but definitely have a feeling that something has gone wrong here. When Microsoft, a billion dollar global software firm, can profit by generating these images I must ask if they are the ones that worked for such reward.

Re: Microsoft Designer

#49
post #43
post #28

I expect hoards of graphic designers to arrive at Redmond with pitchforks and torches this afternoon.

Graphic designers tend not use microsoft tools. I mean , when is the last time you saw someone fire up MS Publisher for a professional graphics project?

IIRC it was the same day I saw someone use MS Access for database management.

True story.

Re: Microsoft Designer

#50

The current design ideas in MS products are terrible so I doubt how much AI can help that. I AM curious to see how design tools evolve to work with all this new AI tech being integrated. I wonder how long is left before pixel pushing is just for final polish and a designer's role shifts to focus on properly explaining the nuance of a problem to a chatbot. Soon we'll all be Celery Man ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v…

>The current design ideas in MS products are terrible so I doubt how much AI can help that.

you mean - the problem with Microsoft is they have no taste?

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