Hi Bob, What a beautiful experience, so true. As always, something like AI should be viewed as a surgical tool to be used only when necessary and not relied solely upon. It’s useful but it only really gets us most of the way there. You still have to encapsulate it properly and adjust it to fully meet your requirements.
Thank you Sean Cole Pi Digital > On 7 Mar 2025, at 16:44, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > When I was young (a long time ago) the company I was with hired a new > graphics designer. All he knew was the conventional method for prepress and > he designed all his art accordingly. > > When I told him about the new Digital Prepress he told me that it still could > not be done, because his professor at Orange Coast college had told him that > it was at least 10 years off. > > So I designed the next book cover and produced it using digital prepress > through a service bureau, which impressed him greatly. Now a great deal f > what he produces for publishing is done with software. He never uses “art > boards” anymore because it simply isn’t necessary. > > There aren’t many graphic artists left who actually understood the process of > producing the film and plates for CMYK printing, which involved underexposing > or overexposing different elements of the graphic layout in order to avoid > thin white lines around objects because the film or plates never aligned > precisely. > > The knowledge is now almost completely lost, so that if the technology of > digital prepress is ever lost or unavailable, it’s doubtful anyone would know > how or have the equipment to perform the task in the old conventional way. > > I fear the same thing may end up happening with AI and not just with > programming. We already have the phenomenon of people not being able to think > for themselves, but simply believing what “experts” tell them is true about a > given subject or issue. With the advent of AI, I think we can expect this > effect to increase dramatically. > > Artificial Intelligence is precicely that: Artificial. It’s really only a > mask hiding the fact that real people are providing input to train a > recursive algorithm to favor one outcome over another. It’s just people > saying, “Not thus, but thus.” > > Bob S _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
