Procreate takes a stand against generative AI, vows to never incorporate the tech into its products | TechCrunch - eviltoast

Popular iPad design app Procreate is coming out against generative AI, and has vowed never to introduce generative AI features into its products. The company said on its website that although machine learning is a “compelling technology with a lot of merit,” the current path that generative AI is on is wrong for its platform.

Procreate goes on to say that it’s not chasing a technology that is a threat to human creativity, even though this may make the company “seem at risk of being left behind.”

Procreate CEO James Cuda released an even stronger statement against the technology in a video posted to X on Monday.

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    3 months ago

    Hard to say. Training models is generative; training a model from scratch is costly. Your input may not infringe copyright but the input before or after may have.

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      3 months ago

      I trained the generative models all from scratch. Pretrained models are not that helpful when it’s important to accurately capture very domain specific features.

      One of the classifiers I tried was based on zoobot with a custom head. Assuming the publications around zoobot are truthful, it was trained exclusively on similar data from a multitude of different sky surveys.