Designers wish they were smart
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- Опубліковано 2 лип 2024
- AI is changing the way we work, whether we like it or not. Is it changing for the better? Not necessarily. We are getting lazy and way less creative.
The path is splitting into two and from what I'm seeing that AI-bro way is heading towards lower quality, lower creativity and just simply dumber design.
And sure - there are those who run up escalators too - but trust me it's such a small group it's not even funny. Many say they do, but they actually only pretend. They go faster, but still just as aimless.
This is one of the reasons design quality is decreasing and there's still no better way to actually get good at design than learning from the right source and practicing. A lot!
There are no shortcuts and knowing how design works is an essential skill.
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I once received a design requirement from a client that was clearly generated by AI. The text was complete nonsense, and I felt very disrespected. As a result, I returned his deposit. I didn’t want to deal with such rubbish, and I believed it wasn’t worth my time. I do think that relying on AI can cause people to lose some of their humanity.
I like how chill these cutaways are lol
Haha yeah I'm thinking about a more chill style of editing this year - I've been working way too hard on effects and transitions ;(
100% on point. Don't be a dummy, use ai for research and automating repetitive basic workloads, and nothing more !
Exactly. And even in those cases always triple-check the outputs. What are you using AI for?
@@MalewiczHype copilots are a very practical use case , i tried supermaven for vscode and i can say with preservative estimates that it made code writing 2x faster, as for the illusion of ai replacing programmers it has to be squashed cuz rn it can't write anything more than dummy projects that you bring to your univ professors cuz you hate working with java.
For coding I also found AI quite useful (if you know what to do with the generated code of course) - as a very low-skilled developer I can actually use it to get close to a desired result and it's a very binary outcome - either works or it doesn't. Easy to test.
I'd love it if we start letting AI do all the tedious tasks like doing chores and leaving creative work like drawing, music literature even logical fields like engineering and science for us humans.
Agreed. Sometimes I use chat gpt for copy because I hate Lorum ipsum but I always end up changing it around because I don’t like parts of it. I think it’s more of a starting point to get some ideas going and putting your own spin on things.
The problem is that many people lean more and more towards "it's good enough" and change less and less the more they use AI.
Once you're clearly aware of it it's fine - but I see a lot of lost awareness esp in twitter posts
@@MalewiczHype linkedin is the worst. Everthing I see there makes me cringe ! Also I love this walking and talking video format!
Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked - Warren Buffet.
I pretty much use it for proofread, copywriting and brainstorm. And as a pretty solid lorem ipsum generator 😂
By the way, I'm dying to test how AI would work for creating crazy 8s and quick firing ideas.
You still do crazy 8s? :O
@@MalewiczHype It helps with blocks lol
It's not like I always do it, but... sometimes you're stuck and anything might help, therefore... why having AI do it for me would be helpful 😂
Couldn’t agree more! Love this video style!!!
Thank you! Trying some new ideas this year
I agree, and I liked the metaphor. But I have a question: What is your definition of quality? And in the corporative world, where you don't have so much governance of the craft, is really a quality a differentiator at the end of the day for most products?
There is an approach in some orgs to take "good enough quality" but it almost always eventually backfires. And what I mean by quality is not one specific "level" of it. It's a construct that will change overtime - what I mean is the "acceptable" quality will get lower and lower the more people get lazy.
I use AI to generate reference images and visual prompts for my illustrations. Normally I'd spend an hour or so searching for exactly what I want on Pinterest (which is already flooded with AI images anyway), now I can just describe it to the AI and it will show me exactly what I want. I'm worried that if I don't keep up to date with this technology it will limit my opportunities as an artist
Isn't it a double edged sword though?
@@MalewiczHype Can't disagree with you here ;)
Great take on AI in general, but you raised a more important point - what do we as designers have to offer, when the power goes off? Do any of us have skills that can be used without the ability to power something on? I urge everyone to unplug more often and work on skills that can be done offline. It may be related to your current job, but it would be better to branch out and learn skills that can help your survive.
Thank you for this message, I always say this to my friends. I will share this video with them so at least they will see that I'm not the only one saying this.
Thanks for sharing!!
I might lose a prospect, but need to tweet this shite 😂
What time of day was this made? It's so quiet on the streets of NYC!
6:45 AM - I'm an early bird :)
I think of it as -
we stopped using our tale, so our tailbone disappeared.
If we do the same with our brains, we will face the same consequences.
Kind of, but in our case losing the tail was for the better. Losing the brain not so much ;)
we still have tailbones. Its is also still functional.
@@louieBlaster I thought when the baby is 8 weeks old we lose the tailbone.
the tail disappeared, the bone is still there unless you fall on your behind very hard ;)
@@MalewiczHype 🤣
Concordamos mais uma vez.
I’ve been feeling low key dumb for not using ChatGPT or other AI tools for copy and other projects. But thank you for validating the reason why I didn’t want to use it in the first place. I think my brain is a little smarter than some 😇
Beautiful video what camera is that?
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It is a shame I can't put a like to this video two times.. I am staying away of using it, especially for creative work. So far for creating a summary for a cv or generate text that I will edit later. Sometimes I am wondering: will this lead me to follow behind with my skillet and lower my chances of finding work.
Generally if you're stuck it's fine to go for AI instead of burning hours unproductively, but the line to cross is very narrow - easy to fall into laziness and overreliance on automation and that clearly leads to decreasing quality.
Oh, I really enjoyed this vlog format, Michal! Nice video as always, thanks.
I agree with you, and for real, this AI thing isn't bad, the main issue for me is that it advance so fast that we can't even follow this up. I don't think it should be this accessible this soon, at least, it's not for everyone.
About the quality, yes, you're so right!!!! I don't see any problems using AI as a tool, either it is for your personal learning or it is to improve your own work. But I think people are using it wrongly (even those who says that!), we should be asking it for questions, not for answers.
AI should be doing my simple tasks, so I could have more time to express my creativeness and to make art. The roles seems to be inverted.
Thanks! Trying new things this year, especially since there are big changes going on.
And yeah - AI was supposed to do boring tasks and it's mostly aimed at creative tasks now.
I feel like if we replace everything with AI, we will end up like in the Wall-e movie... Just lying in the bed, eating and consuming stuff, without thinking about anything.
True, I totally agree with that. Great share 🙌
Any plans to conquer that?
Thank you for being a real one Michal! AI is still a relatively new technology and really lacks creativity. I use AI to narrow down my ideas, but I will criticize AI, whether their answers are odd or not taking certain aspects in consideration. People treat AI like a god, they’re not. Both human and AI have strengths and weaknesses
This is why in Dune human banned AI and use Mentat.
We are going in that direction when people will forget how to do stuff because AI can do it. But without the spice and Han Zimmer score
I totally agree-we are going get dumber if we keep on this path. And by accepting AI quality content we allow ourselves to be replaced by AI.
100% on point, we should use AI to compliment our workflow, not rely on it to do everything. Just like you said we can use escalator to climb even faster, but we still need to do our work. I think AI is great for creating moodboards, maybe even some images that we can then refine in photoshop. For copy it's mostly crap in my opinion. It's really generic and after seeing it few times you get the gist when something is AI written which is a big no for me... Whole point of being designer is to have skill of developing empathy for different users and tackle problems from their perspective. AI doesn't have empathy. It's like really really smart sociopath that is learning from human behaviour but it will never be able to truly empathise with the users...
Can't agree more
Since I am using AI for writing pitch, I am getting less and less response. It seems so " Dubai-ish i.e. Artificial"
Good idea to stop using it that way ;)
Walking was better than those highly polished quality videos coming out on yt by EDITORS
Omg that's such a fair point after a point AI will be parsed into AI to generate worse quality 🤯 why are people not thinking about it and not taking the necessary measures?!?!?!?
Hope you’re enjoying NYC 🗽
Already back but it was a good, productive trip.
Totally agree with you! I only use AI when I need quick answers for simple questions. As for my design workflow, I've never used any specifically ones that were created during the AI boom. Main reason being is that I think I'm a lot better and there's no fun if I just made AI do all the heavy lifting. I'm not designing just for the money after all :)
That's also a good perspective! Some automation of boring / repetitive tasks makes sense. But outsourcing all creativity is toxic.
💯 correct
So what do you think the future will be?
The GOAT!!! 🐐
your analogies of AI make me think the same analogies are very apt for the governments in a lot of parts of the world (western world at least)
AI can help a lot if you use it right. For example Apple feature that can grab text from image by default - often clients sends just crappy image instead of any kind document. Or when i need to make a few placeholder images united by one theme. Just for presenting purpose. Drawing only it i can spend about a week and use photobanks often not find any specific or it cots money. Idk will i use them or not. And AI helps with that.
It is a good point but I'd wait for iOS 18 to see how good these features really are - everything looks better in a promo video ;)
@@MalewiczHype I meant mac, that function with text already exists. Not ios that was announced.
Ah the current Mac OS features are quite nice - yeah. But this is not AI of "creative type" - you still pick the text you want/need yourself.
@@MalewiczHype agree! But as i know that function is part of AI :) or maybe misunderstood
Data collected and trained by LLMs should only be complementary to your work.
I only use chatgpt for sending letters to colleagues who are too lazy to complete their tasks.
Prompt: Make a draft that says "FU" to a lazy ass colleague. Ignore the "this violates our policy" notif and press ↑
Haha that's an interesting use-case. How do people react?
Thats why I don't like AI. I barely use it. It's good for text placeholders, now I dont have to use "lorem ipsum" i can just ask chatgpt to generate dummy text that fits the context better, but 9/10 times AI is useless. Once you go deeper than "generate me some basic stuff" chatgpt just starts hallucinating doing things that he wasn't asked to, just bashing its head into a wall.
I can't count how many times I tried to use chatgpt to be faster, but it did such a terrible job even for lets say project description in my portfolio that I just told it that in that amount of time I wasted trying to get the results I could have just done it myself.
It may some day get better, but the problem is people are using it now and saying it's already "good enough". It's not.
Are you using AI for anything that works?
@@MalewiczHype I am only using AI for text, like dummy text, some values, fixing my grammar or just some interview questions for research. But I never blindly use those generated questions for research, I usually just see what it generated differently from what I came up with. Sometimes it comes up with one or two questions that I haven't thought about. I wouldn't trust AI to write an email let alone do my work.
Yeah, that makes sense!
I agree, use AI but not to the level where you can't function without it and lose your critical thinking skills.
This is why, I hate AI.
I couldn't agree more on this. I was worried about this AI thing a while ago and was very unpleasantly surprised by the opinions of some people whom I used to look up to, as they said that AI would help the mankind. In my opinion what it actually does is make people unlearn how to think, and create. They want people to become stupid, unable of analytical thinking. As for me, I use AI just to get some ideas when I have difficulty to start smth. And definitely not for research, I don't trust the AI generated results, so it's easier for me to use trustworthy resources from the very beginning. This whole situation is sad, I support technologies that make people free from some household chores, so that they have more time to create, but AI actually robs people of that. And same goes for VR, I wish people would experience the real world more.
Yeah "unlearn" is a good way to put it.
Actually now, because of AI, more work done by majority of people is of BETTER QUALITY, not lower. It is that good. Or rather, average quality of work done by people is mediocre, and easy to surpass. So I dont know, at least articles are readable now 😆 I will also add that you can compare AI to calculator, we all don't care about manual multiplication, division etc. We do it quickly on calculator and use outcomes for better things. The same with AI, it is so revolutionary that I use it every day. It can help with makin not obvious connections, pushes creativity, unlocks unusual possibilities. I needed 3-language translator, with proper prompt now I have it for free.
Better is not "good" in this case. It simply means a lot of people with zero skill that shouldn't be "creating" are now and just add to the noise. Skills first, automations later :)
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AI generated stuff sucks. It's obvious when something has soul to it and when it doesn't. It's extremely overrated right now, and things with soul to it will continue to be valued by human beings. It's humans who spend money, not AI.
Yeah but it all depends how something is sold - in some cases it may just fool some companies that it's worth going that route