What do we loose when we ditch generative AI? Easier poster making? What good does that do? So now pop&mom can have a poster in their shop that looks as if some graphic artist was paid for it, but wasn't. Will that drive the economy up? Improve poverty? Halt the war? Make life more tolerable? No, it just adds the pretense of having a professional designer, something that will quickly loose its added value when everybody does it.

every one of them still reeks of AI. especially the trend of icons next to the activities (tombola etc). its just a reskin but they all look AI, just not that triggering minimum effort AI look that is everywhere.

I agree. AI is here to stay. It isn't crypto. There's real utility behind it.

Trying to deny it is just going to end up fighting the tide, but the future belongs to the folks that learn to harness it properly.

I enjoyed the post, and I have already sent it to some friends that I think will find it useful. Thanks!

Have you considered making the model leverage computer use via Work/Codex?

I'd imagine making the agents use the same tools that people utilize would greatly dial back how AI-generated these things look, and it would provide much better control too.

With Astra being genuinely much better at this, it should be more viable than ever.

I believe the point is that there is no baby in this bathwater