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A friend of mine was helping me to do some screens to make some OBS Studio scenes. We were on discord sharing our workflow via screen share, then he looks for an AI model using a search engine. Then upload an image just to cut the white background. I told him that easily he could use the magic wand in photoshop or gimp to cut it out, even, if he wanted, customize the settings to achieve saw edges or none of them. The place where he works loads a bunch of work to him, so, he says me that that's the only way to make the day job done, but, the image that the AI spit out was horrible. The AI not just cut the background, it cut relevant part of the image too, also, it added some transparency to the image. Thing that my buddy had to fix in photoshop adding some black under it in another layer.

I do not know how to talk to him about it, because he was the photoshop guy in highschool and I was the gimp guy in highschool, we always tried to achieve the same things in both softwares, we got pretty good in them. He uses AI for everything now, to add subtitles, to delete content from a video or image, to cut background, etc, just to fix it in photoshop or whatever.

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[–] i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca 23 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

The thing that’s helped pull people back from AI dependency at work has been to frequently ask “how much time did AI save on the whole thing?”

I mean, ChatGPT is amazing at writing bash scripts. But if you spend 40 minutes iterating over a solution before the clanker gives a usable solution, didn’t AI just cost time?

People refuse to accept they aren’t gaining anything from AI until they repeatedly look at the big picture.

[–] Aeri@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago

I once tried to use AI to automate a simple task and then i used a simple day to fail to automate that task and did the work by hand. How does anyone think this is "The future"???

[–] Acamon@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago

Maybe you could ask him to measure how effective it is, by doing some tasks with ai and without, and measuring the time. If you want to make it non judgmental you could say it'd be helpful for you to hear if it's really worth the effort of trying some ai yourself. And then if he sees that it doesn't end up saving (and sometimes costs) him time, he might accept it.

[–] H1AA6329S@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If your friend doesn't see the correlation between what you wrote in your last paragraph and the irony of it, then I think he may be lacking some comprehensive skills altogether. So no doubt he makes up for it with AI which in return just makes him more numb.

[–] capuccino@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Yea, it has to do with this line of thinking of "AI is a tool, I am using it as a tool, nothing else, I do not depend of it, is a tool", what impresses me, because they talk like if it were a drug or something.

[–] JustARegularNerd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 21 hours ago

In IT, you see people do things the hard way so often because it's what they know and figured out, and changing over to an easy way requires them to relearn and change their workflow, which they just don't see the point in.

You've already suggested to them there's a better and easier way to do what they need with existing tools instead of AI and they've turned it down - I would say leave it there. Something something leading horses to waters.

[–] chunes@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago

How about you just let him use the tools he wants? It's not that deep.

[–] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 0 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I dont want to be that guy, but the magic wand in photoshop has also lowered the skill. Its skills fade all the way to the top, yet we keep getting better results.

[–] capuccino@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

In comparison with AI, the magic wand does the job better and faster. You can tweak the tool to do a better job while the AI try to do what it thinks you want.