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Re: Figma AI

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Post by animex »

iknowSFR wrote: post #4

Every AI tool being released by 3rd parties is being blacklisted by my company. The primary reasoning is around sharing data with tool itself. On the other hand, if my clients allow them, there’s a long review and approval process followed by continuous audits. Is anyone else running into this at their companies? I look at these tools and get excited but I’m continuously being blocked from using for work.

If Figma is using OpenAI API on the back-end for this, does the data they relay to OpenAI get protected? (Not sure if they do, but curious if their solution is on-prem or being handled by a 3rd party)

Re: Figma AI

#32

Post by ProfessorLayton »

itronitron wrote: post #8

All that page demonstrates is that Figma facilitates a lot of design features that have no utility for the user.

Not everything listed here, but things like layer naming assists, translation, and mockup auto-fill definitely help designers focus on what's important to the user.

More time spent on user issues rather than monotonous work sounds like a win win.

Re: Figma AI

#33

Post by sofixa »

hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #22
illumanaughty wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The problem is when other people are getting 'AI suggestions' based on your work. What if you don't own the copyright for the work you're producing (it's for a client)? What if you don't what AI being trained on your data?

Figma is explicit about this: > Two important highlights: First, all admins have control of whether their team’s content data is used for training. Second, participation in AI content training is not required to use Figma or Figma’s AI features. Learn more about our approach to training. Blanket bans on third party AI tools don't make any sense to me. As the parent commenter said, they already have all your data, so…

> Blanket bans on third party AI tools don't make any sense to me

It's an easy, safe and secure default.

Re: Figma AI

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Post by fnordpiglet »

moffkalast wrote: post #28
hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Figma is explicit about this: > Two important highlights: First, all admins have control of whether their team’s content data is used for training. Second, participation in AI content training is not required to use Figma or Figma’s AI features. Learn more about our approach to training. Blanket bans on third party AI tools don't make any sense to me. As the parent commenter said, they already have all your data, so…

If Figma takes a little inspiration from Adobe (they were almost acquired at one point after all) they'll realize they can change their TOS at any time for any reason with impunity. Such statements are at best dubious and at worst complete unprovable bullshit. The only way to be sure your data stays yours is local models running on your machines.

This applies to all non self hosted software and even much self hosted software that radios out invasive telemetry. The difference between offering an AI feature or not offering it is time, but collecting your data as training for that eventually inevitable AI feature is happening now, everywhere, all the time. The only defense is retreat into a SKIF or depend on ToS, and as you point out ToS is a very weak defense. Things are moving considerably faster than law, regulation, judicial review, and establishment of a compliance framework can possibly accommodate.

Welcome to the future you were promised! It’s already too late.

Re: Figma AI

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Post by photon_collider »

josefrichter wrote: post #24

Naming layers has been a problem for decades . There are even memes about it. With the advent of AI, we all knew this is a perfect match where AI can help from day one. Happy to see it arrive to Figma now.

CSS has had a similar issue with naming classes, which is one reason for how TailwindCSS’s design. I wonder if we’ll see more AI tools for these kinds of use cases.

Re: Figma AI

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Post by thomasfromcdnjs »

josefrichter wrote: post #24

Naming layers has been a problem for decades . There are even memes about it. With the advent of AI, we all knew this is a perfect match where AI can help from day one. Happy to see it arrive to Figma now.

Yeah this one is crazy cool, not even a designer, but my figma prototypes are trash to manager after a while, any approximate name is better than my Layer 1231

Re: Figma AI

#40

Post by jerrygenser »

karaterobot wrote: post #3

Watching the keynote, the feature where it spits out a design based on a prompt seems like a gimmick. If it doesn't work with MY design system (as opposed to curated design systems like MUI or Bootstrap or whatever) then it's useless. It's also probably not ready to design complex applications, as opposed to brochure websites and apps that fit into very common templates. The AI-powered search features seem really pro…

v0 by Vercel only outputs one UI library, shadcn/ui. Useful if you are wanting to use that library for example starting a project from scratch. Potentially vercel will add more.

https://v0.dev/

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