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 to 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 photoshop or whatever.
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.
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.