Why do people hate Canva Designers??

Canva's target market has always been the long-tail of less sophisticated creatives, often people without technical skills or advanced software. For that long-tail, the focus is on creating high quality designs with as little friction as possible. By bringing all of this creative surface area into the same platform they enable long-tail creators to... See more

The incident once again highlights a common problem with all generative AI tools: whether it’s AI-generated images, music, or writing, these works are inherently derivative because anything they produce is made up of remixed pieces of work in the training data.

AI images are quick and easy to make. They look great at first sight, and they quickly replaced the use of stock images. But, like everything cheap and easy, they come with trade-offs. A short critique of the pure AI image.

As smart as you are about design (and you are! Go read from the beginning if you don’t yet believe it), sometimes the goals you’re trying to achieve need the services of someone who designs solutions for a living. People trained to solve problems. The difference between being design savvy, which many people are—including yourself—and having design

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What makes so much A.I. art so bad, in my opinion, is that it’s so generic. These are generative systems. We keep calling them generative. But generative is so — when we use that term, it usually means it helped you get somewhere new. But these systems are mimics. They help you go somewhere old. They can help us write or draw or compose like anyone... See more