Text to Vector Tool

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I teach a Digital Design class and this new "Text to Vector" tool is making my life difficult.  The school pays a subscription for every student.  I am now having to deal with kids passing AI vectors as their own. Can anyone tell me how I can turn off this feature on a student's computer?

[Monika Gause]

Are those subscriptions managed by school IT or are those individual licenses? If the latter, you can't turn if off.

First thing: Adobe has already announced that the generative AI will come at a cost. https://helpx.adobe.com/firefly/using/generative-credits-faq.html

Second: those generated artworks can be easily spotted. I'm teaching as well. I have told my students that I can tell when they hand in generated AI. I also taught them how they can tell generated art from carefully manually built artwork. I want them to be proud of their work. I want them to be able to tell their future clients why their art is worth it.

https://youtu.be/O_1fzMyFSsE

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Monika

The subscriptions are managed by the school IT.  If that makes a difference in being able to turn it off, I'm glad it can be done.  I can tell also, but honestly in today's school culture calling a student a lier is difficult.  It would mean paperwork and/or parent and meetings.  So the easiest way is to remove it altogether.  All the subscriptions have been bought for this year, I will try and see if it can be removed for next year.  

[Monika Gause · Accepted solution]

I do not know the details of turning it off, but there have been threads in which people didn't have access to the AI functions and they found out that their IT department has turned it off. Those were company accounts. So maybe the school's IT department could get in contact with their Adobe tech person and inquire that.

If it's not possible to do the same in education accounts, then of course you could make a documentation of the creation process a part of the homework. Let them document their process with screenshots and descriptions. It's good for reflecting anyway. And also when they want to remember later on how they did something in that homework, then they can just read their own documentation.

And maybe check out this: https://helpx.adobe.com/enterprise/kb/adobe-firefly-for-k12.html#:~:text=Select%20the%20View%20Detai.... 

[defaultrc0kfq99xn2h]

thats wonderful information.  I can't thank you enough.  I will get together with my IT Dept and see what can be done.  Thanks again!

[Monika Gause]

You're welcome!

[Bobby Henderson]

I haven't found the results of the Text to Vector tool to be all that impressive. As you said, the generated graphics have all the appearances of something that has been auto-traced. It's not very clean or precise like something that has been built manually. Aside from the technical quality of the artwork the generated images can be very random. They'll often have an odd or wacky "uncanny valley" vibe to them. It is kind of neat how the tool can copy the visual styles of other graphical images and incorporate the styles into new generated results. Really all I can do with the Text to Vector feature is use it for brain-storming ideas. The stuff doesn't work as finished quality. Unfortunately not everyone has the same quality standards. I won't be surprised to see lesser quality AI-generated graphics churned out in all sorts of projects.

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Bobby

I agree, it's not impressive.  It's just a tricky tool when you are teaching 12 years olds with argumentative parents.  I'm just trying to solve problems before they even happen.  I might be overthinking this I know

[Bobby Henderson]

I don't envy your position. It's a tough subject. And it raises all sorts of other issues, such as parents not doing a good enough job instilling ethics into their children. Too many people treat things as a hustle these days.

I participate on an advisory panel for the graphics and photography department at a local career-tech school. At our last meeting we talked at length about the pitfalls of AI. Students passing off AI-generated work as their own is a serious problem. Stock photo/graphics companies are having to adjust their approaches. The business world is really excited about AI, but what they're excited about is a quiet part they're trying not to say out loud: AI could be used to replace a lot of human jobs and generate a windfall of profit.

If it's used in a positive manner AI could help us be more efficient in our work and maybe improve our lives via a better work-life balance. If we don't watch-dog how this technology is used I'm afraid AI could end up making our lives worse.