Does AI make us more efficient… or more dependent? Who is driving your brush?

Very insightful video Amybeth, we are still the navigators of creativity, some may view it as trick because of the lack of understanding of the actual workflow that involves the creation such as decision making, and other factors. Access to partner models can give us more ways to experiment and think beyond the box. Human intelligence + technology is the way for us to improve going forward. 

I am r curious as to hear– on"average" What is the balance in your workflow? Which way do the scales tip? Or like myself, is it project based? #adobefirefly #Nanobana #FluxKontetPro

On balance, I think the implementation of AI by Photoshop is more productive than the use of AI generally.

There are already studies that seem to indicate that use of AI - at least where crafting text is concerned - is actively dumbing us down and making it more difficult to work independently of AI in future, and LLMs' propensity for hallucinating limits their worth.

Photoshop's usage of AI to expedite and simplify tasks that would previously have required hours of painstaking work with the clone brush has been a fantastic improvement to work-fluidity. This feels like the ideal, if not wholly Utopian way to employ AI: it's essentially taking on the drudgery of what a human would have to do, but quicker and more efficiently. I've found it invaluable for extending backgrounds and removing unwanted elements - particularly clearing a patch in an image to ensure the legibility of image captions. I'm happy to be dependent on AI for such tasks because it leaves me more time for the more important creative tasks.

Personally, I'm rather more sceptical of AI as a means of generating visual concepts... If they're used to draft a basis to be developed into a concept to present a client, for example, that's one thing... actually presenting the AI concept feels lazy and disingenuous.

The old adage of "a picture is worth a thousand words" takes on a whole new meaning, because a well-crafted photograph/visual, which may have required models/actors, set-dressers, lighting techs, etc. will invariably be more costly than its closest AI-generated analogue, but it will be more precise and 'real' than something created through a thousand words' worth of prompt.