Figma Disables AI App Design Tool After It Copied Apple’s Weather App

A 50 year old design firm, @Pentagram, known for its craft (typefaces), used Midjourney to create illustrations for a recent brand project. It caused quite the uproar. Some hated that they used AI. Some were disappointed that they didn't go far enough in their use of AI. Is this a sign that generative AI is now —definitively— part of the profess... See more

The fight between creators and AI companies is fierce. The current paradigm in AI is to build bigger and bigger models, and there is, at least currently, no getting around the fact that they require vast data sets hoovered from the internet to train on.

Designers and developers are willing to collaborate but are facing key challenges:

• Their tools are not connected (Figma for designers | Microsoft Visual Studio and Github for developers)


• They don’t speak the same language


• Design tools produce images that developers have to translate into code


• It’s impossible to preserve a brand identity across all its

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No amount of AI will automate away corporate dysfunction.