Anything goes, these days…

LinkedIn is one the most useless app ever. I have trashed it countless times, but I do use it now and ten to keep up with companies and respond to a few solicitations. There is almost never anything of value in my feed, between the fake jobs and the low value self-promotion AI-written posts. Who even reads this? Not even mentioning the political, and pseudo-activist posts. And this happens despite systematically marking all of these posts irrelevant or “inappropriate for LinkedIn”. This app is beyond repair. Uninstalling.

> Not that their craft would die out, but it would be mutilated

This is spot on, exactly how it felt for illustrators/designers.

With disruptive technologies, the correct response is to use the tools in unintended ways. And thus reappropriate them.

So they've missed the innovation train due to regulation, and now they are likely to axe the side-effect benefit of said regulation.

> I love the idea of this but the mention of Hedy Lamarr could be confused as parody too

Exactly, that was a bit puzzling.

Also because it’s mid :)

> Adobe seems to have gotten the memo though.

So far Adobe AI tools are pretty useless, according to many professional illustrators. With Firefly you can use other (non-Adobe) image generators. The output is usually barely usable at this point in time.

I heard it’s useful for non illustrators? Surely those non professionals will pay for Adobe software.

Another one bites the dust.

"We can drive the value of a service towards zero and create additional value at the same time," was the thinking here.

I think you mean "We can drive the cost of a service towards zero and create additional value at the same time," was the thinking here.

Don't think they realized they'd also be driving the value to zero.

Exactly what I meant indeed. They probably thought how nice and how much cost-savings they were gonna get.

But they did ironically also drive the value they offered towards zero in this case ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Of course.