2024-12-12
There is a use case for Apple's Image Generation
I'm sure the tech pundit meme regarding Apple's AI image generation being broken and useless will continue. It's easier to repeat the meme than it is to think about how others might use the tech so I'll continue to pushback and suggest that normal users will actually find it very useful. It's not that hard, imagine for a moment you're a student doing a report or presentation or a neighborhood resident or non-profit employee doing a newsletter in Pages. You can use the clip art in Pages or you can use the new image generation. What's better?
The use case is better clip art or even photo substitution. Not everyone can afford to hire a professional illustrator or take a great photo. For each of these I opened Apple Notes, made a crude drawing, described how I wanted it to look and waited 10 seconds. Then I chose from a few images. In each case I found something that would make a newsletter or presentation far more interesting than clip art or no art at all.
See? See? That's the use case. That's it.
It seems ridiculous that supposed professional "content creators" and "tech journalists" make so little effort to understand a use case beyond themselves. It's just lazy cynicism because apparently cynicism (especially when it involves Apple) gets clicks.
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