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Re:AI will enable predictive design in creatives by egypturnash on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @01:39PM (#19617129)
"Predictive design" sounds like a really good way to make even more bland, generic work.

Which I suppose makes it easier for someone who's actually honed their craft into something distinctive to stand out from the crowd, but...

Re:AI will enable predictive design in creatives by randcraw on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @02:11PM (#19617447)
I think this is perhaps the principal near-term threat of AI: to commodify people into stereotypes.

Pretty much all AI algorithms seek to classify their data (us) into a smaller more manageable number of categories. AI methods work best when each of us 'consumers' fits neatly into one of these classes (whether predefined or emergent; each class's origin doesn't matter). Upon implementation, you shall become a label, so that future interaction with the AI can assume you to be a "Class 137" and lock you into a simplified model (with all your features having low value eigenvectors conveniently excluded). Deviation from this norm will not be tolerated, simply because there's less profit in it.

Blah. If anything, better AI models of the world need to capture more subtlety leading to better user-driven customization, not less. For Predictive Design not to become yet another Big Brother, it needs to reflect each individual's unique constellation of attributes, not the single dumbed-down class they were labeled into.

Seven billion classes. That's the ticket.

Re:AI will enable predictive design in creatives by rhizome on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @02:25PM (#19617577)
And even then I get "recommendations" on sites for "Best Rap Right Now," which is about as generic as it gets, a simulacrum of a science that was perfected in the 1950s.
Re:AI will enable predictive design in creatives by slashblake on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @02:17PM (#19617516)
I think we'll see AI assist in the 80% of design work that is bland/generic and get out of the way for the other 20% that is interesting/obsessive/fun.
Re:AI will enable predictive design in creatives by konsalexee on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @02:56PM (#19627696)
> more bland, generic work

We see generic and bland work from marketers and designers quite often, to be honest. With predictive designing, we want to step up everyone's game.

If you create unique and engaging content, then for sure no A.I. can judge you. In fact, if you create extremely unique content you will be an Outlier in the prediction probably and will not score high enough. But think of banners on websites.

You have to gather the attention of the user, that will last not even 2 secs, and you have to make your creative memorable in order to increase the brand recall in your company. This is a case study were A.I. could rank your design in terms of memorability.