AI Funding Could Go To Better Places Than Lazy Designers Needing A Crutch
Because The Design Community Clearly Can’t Innovate On Its Own
Honk honk and roll up the clown car, the design community is hopping aboard the generative AI train. Apparently sketching ideas with actual pencils is too hard these days. The latest fad (or scam, depending on how you look at it) is product innovations, where they use AI to do their jobs for them. Gone are the days of actual creativity, now all we need are algorithms and lazy wannabe creatives.
Turns Out, AI Is A Shiny New Toy For The Design Folks
Evidently, this technology is opening up “new opportunities” and putting real-time intelligence to use. Or, more accurately, recycling the same ideas over and over because the AI hasn’t learned how to develop an original thought. How novel.
Giving Power to A Machine Because Designers Can’t Handle It
Get this. They’re giving the AI the power to design real-time responses to user needs. Apparently, the architects of our visual world can’t anticipate what users will need, probably because they’re so wrapped up in their pretentious art scenes and unnatural obsession on finding ‘inspiration’ in everything.
Capital One, Doing Charitable Work by Subsidizing Laziness
Big cheers for Capital One, the latest to sponsor this delightful plunge into mediocrity. They’ve decided to pour money into making our world look the same, because who needs originality when there’s an AI ready to spit out mass-market drivel?
Do We Really Need Artificial Intelligence In Design?
In summary, AI in design is nothing more than an embarassing indictment of an industry that has lost touch with actual innovation. Rather than strive for imaginative ideas, our intrepid designers are content to sit back and let a machine do all the heavy lifting. It’s a sobering example of the real damage that can be done when we too easily surrender our creative impulses to technology. I hope you witty designers feel proud of this. Because let’s be honest, this isn’t your greatest work.
Original article:https://venturebeat.com/ai/ai-and-design-exploring-the-synergy-of-creativity-and-technology/