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Re: Our New AI Website Builder

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Post by nrdgrrrl »

AlienRobot wrote: post #29
nadermx wrote: post #2

Speaking of WordPress, hows the entire WordPress debacle going with Matt Mullenweg?

For 99.99% of the people, it doesn't matter. Even if Wordpress stopped getting updates today, the code already works and it's open source, thanks in part to Matt for maintaining it for 20 years. It was just the weekly Internet drama of the programming niche probably pumped by Youtubers and influencers in need for content to drive views and then by memes. Barely anything of substance was actually written about it. Aft…

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Re: Our New AI Website Builder

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Post by partiallypro »

I deal with WordPress a lot, and at least for my set of clients they just don't even have time for this, even with AI. They just wants leads. AI currently is good I guess for a standard 3-5 page site just like some of the other standard builders, but clients with hundreds of pages and heavily reliant on getting leads through campaigns and SEO, I currently don't see any danger (or use) here. Great for SMBs that just need something up quick though.

Re: Our New AI Website Builder

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Post by rchaud »

thetwopct wrote: post #26

WordPress.com ≠ WordPress Conflating the two is like mistaking GitHub for Git.

They are much more similar to each other than Git as they share the same plugin ecosystem, core developers and the base layer CMS is identical. I imagine there are many more feature differences between Git and Github.

Re: Our New AI Website Builder

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Post by Spivak »

ToucanLoucan wrote: post #17
paul7986 wrote: post #13

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chatGPT (pro at least) creates amazing logos in 30 seconds, amazing look websites around the logo you settled on and then codes the front-end (html,css,js). That can all be done in 5 minutes or less. As UX Designer and UI Developer who does all the above (also do UX Research which anything where you interface with humans i think is safe for awhile) it's slightly disheartening to see my skill-sets future worth..... Wh…

From an audience perspective, if you use an AI generated site, I'm just assuming your product is shit. And not even because I'm opposed to the way AI is being used in many places (though I am) but for the same reason I don't buy products that advertise with shitty commercials that look like they were filmed in 2006 on a budget of $500. If you don't have a marketing budget for proper advertising, I'm assuming your pro…

It's pretty easy easy to detect copy from the major AIs since they have a distinctive voice but a website coded by AI won't be nearly as easy.

Re: Our New AI Website Builder

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Post by Spivak »

rrr_oh_man wrote: post #19
paul7986 wrote: post #18

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If you have GPT pro or know someone try it out .. create a logo with it then ask it to create a website around your chosen logo and then ask it to code the front-end. Im sure it can do the back-end code too. The logos and the web design it creates around the chosen logo look amazing .. extremely pro level. I'm not sure how you or anyone would be able to decipher if a website and or brand used chatGPT (pro). I'm betti…

> The logos and the web design it creates around the chosen logo look amazing .. extremely pro level Loss of words. I'd be happy to have your standards in life.

They do though— it's mostly because the pros aren't terribly good either. If your standards are "the top 0.001%" of graphic and web design then yeah, AI designs aren't on the level. But if your standards are simply as good or better than your typical professional design consulting firm then AI is knocking it out of the park.

Re: Our New AI Website Builder

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Post by cyral »

rrr_oh_man wrote: post #19
paul7986 wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you have GPT pro or know someone try it out .. create a logo with it then ask it to create a website around your chosen logo and then ask it to code the front-end. Im sure it can do the back-end code too. The logos and the web design it creates around the chosen logo look amazing .. extremely pro level. I'm not sure how you or anyone would be able to decipher if a website and or brand used chatGPT (pro). I'm betti…

> The logos and the web design it creates around the chosen logo look amazing .. extremely pro level Loss of words. I'd be happy to have your standards in life.

The new image generation released two weeks ago or so is a massive improvement, doesn't look like typical AI slop.

Everyone in these threads that dismisses AI needs to remember 5 years ago we didn't have somewhat human level intelligence that we could command to complete tasks in 30 seconds. There are a lot of cases where it fails right now, but imagine what it's going to look like in 5 or 10 more years. I think it's good to at least play around with it (prompt experimenting) to see what it can do, because your competitors, coworkers, etc are going to do that and get ahead whether you like it or not.

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Post by morsecodist »

paul7986 wrote: post #13
imagetic wrote: post #8

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chatGPT (pro at least) creates amazing logos in 30 seconds, amazing look websites around the logo you settled on and then codes the front-end (html,css,js). That can all be done in 5 minutes or less. As UX Designer and UI Developer who does all the above (also do UX Research which anything where you interface with humans i think is safe for awhile) it's slightly disheartening to see my skill-sets future worth..... Wh…

Can you say more? What are you doing specifically? I use AI for some things (mostly assisting with software development) and I have had a wildly different experience. I have used ChatGPT o1 and made some icons for internal apps so our employees can easily pick them from a list and the AI generated logos look just awful. I go with them because aesthetics don't matter for this use case they just need to be visually recognizable but it doesn't understand the concept of a logo it wouldn't even give me a white background let alone a transparent one.

I have had some success with some UI components but I usually need to massage them a bit and anything big or requiring a lot of changes it starts to trip over itself.

Re: Our New AI Website Builder

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Post by cdolan »

johnebgd wrote: post #23
cabalos wrote: post #14

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Development has dropped off a cliff over the last couple of months. The release cycle has moved from quarterly to yearly. He's basically taking his ball and going home. My guess is we'll see more internal initiatives like this AI builder instead of focusing on the core product. This would be an okay strategy if his core product wasn't in such a state of disrepair. I've seen multiple issues on Github projects from Aut…

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"it's pathetic that no other company benefiting from WordPress has stepped up either"

^<-- hard to justify doing so when Wordpress' package ecosystem (the open source platform) is tethered to Wordpress.org (matt's personal website)

Re: Our New AI Website Builder

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Post by rrr_oh_man »

Spivak wrote: post #35
rrr_oh_man wrote: post #19

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> The logos and the web design it creates around the chosen logo look amazing .. extremely pro level Loss of words. I'd be happy to have your standards in life.

They do though— it's mostly because the pros aren't terribly good either. If your standards are "the top 0.001%" of graphic and web design then yeah, AI designs aren't on the level. But if your standards are simply as good or better than your typical professional design consulting firm then AI is knocking it out of the park.

> good or better than your typical professional design consulting firm

Can you give me one example of a decent logo design made by ChatGPT that does exactly that — look good or better than your typical professional design consulting firm? I have literally tried today, but the results have been... very meh. :)

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