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.
How do you know AI companies straight-up pirate the art and don’t just buy a copy to train their models?
Because that’s what they say. They say they’re entitled to just pirate it all. Of course they don’t use the word “pirate” or “piracy” but many have said they feel entitled to the content on the internet.
If you run a website, check the logs. 60% of the traffic to my sad personal website is bot scrapper traffic.