I Hate Adobe

Exploring AI Integrations with Adobe Photoshop, InDesign and Premiere Pro - mike chambers

As I expect most people in the tech industry have been doing, I’ve been spending a lot of time lately thinking about AI and its impact. As I work with the community for Adobe, I’ve specifically been thinking about how it will affect the creative industry, and its implications for Adobe and Adobe’s creative tools. Adobe makes industry leading creative tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator and Premiere Pro, and I have been curious about exploring how / if these tools fit in within an AI first world. While I definitely have some thoughts on that (I’ll save that for another post), I wanted to start with the basics and explore how and if Adobe tools could be integrated with AI tools. Questions like:

Meet the academics refusing to use generative AI

Researchers say they have their reasons for avoiding AI tools — and they’re sick of arguing about it.

Meet the academics refusing to use generative AI

Researchers say they have their reasons for avoiding AI tools — and they’re sick of arguing about it.

Why so many game developers don't want to use generative AI

With credits ranging from Dispatch and Marvel Rivals to Uncharted and Dragon Age, over 30 devs share their thoughts on gen AI

Where does the rigor go? Research software and the future of trustworthy science.

Generative AI now makes it dramatically easier to produce something that looks like research: analysis code, figures, literature reviews, even whole pap…

AI and the Destruction of the Creative Commons

The balance of software copyright protection and openness has always been fraught with minutiae and detail that bores all but the most nerdy of pedants. Yet, through much effort and 40 years of debate we had reached an equilibrium. Now AI has thrown that out the window.

AI Is a Waste of Time

The newest AI tools are accelerating basic research and scaring the general public. But many people are simply using them as toys.

In spite of hype, many companies are moving cautiously when it comes to generative AI | TechCrunch

Companies are extremely interested in generative AI as vendors push potential benefits, but turning that desire from a proof of concept into a working product is proving much more challenging.

Why Generative UI Is the New Frontier for Business Software

In an era where AI constructs UIs on the fly, discover how SAP is tapping generative UI to reimagine how works gets done.

Why We Can't Have Nice Software - Andrew Kelley

The problem with software is that it's too powerful. It creates so much wealth so fast that it's virtually impossible to not distribute it.

Pluralistic: Copyright won't solve creators' Generative AI problem (09 Feb 2023)

The media spectacle of generative AI (in which AI companies' breathless claims of their software's sorcerous powers are endlessly repeated) has understandably alarmed many creative workers, a group that's already traumatized by extractive abuse by media and tech companies.

Cursor: AI coding agent

Built to make you extraordinarily productive, Cursor is the best AI coding agent.

Your Software Is Not Sentient

Software simulacrum is not true consciousness, the stripper at the strip club doesn't actually love you, and nearly all of the biggest problems with "AI" have very ordinary human origins.

Companies Are Throttling Employees’ AI Use Because It’s Too Expensive

Sources and leaks from Amazon, Adobe, Atlassian, Citi, and more show what is really happening with AI right now: companies are trying to rein in AI use as costs spiral out of control.

Turns out Generative AI was a scam

Or at least very very far from what it has been cracked up to be