Apple introduces iPad mini built for Apple Intelligence

All of this looks good, but if they want to retain trust with artists, the last thing they should be doing is integrating generative AI tools into their art programs.

Creatives are getting more and more frustrated with the AI tools showing up in places like Windows or in Photoshop. For the first time ever I am meeting career artists and designers who are actively looking to add non-AI alternatives to their usual toolchains because they feel betrayed by the addition of generative AI.

Apple is asking to lose the trust of a major market segment by charging forward with this stuff. You would think that the backlash to their "Crush!" commercial would have been an eye-opening moment for them about what Artists actually expect from them...

> Creatives are getting more and more frustrated with the AI tools showing up in places like Windows or in Photoshop.

I would be careful about bias here. The loudest people are often the most unhappy. I have several graphic design friends who have fully embraced integrating AI into their workflows.

It's not like artists have a choice. They've been abused by Adobe and similar organisations for decades now, and remain locked in their siloes.

Sure, in theory they could switch to Linux with Krita and Gimp or something, but every time I've heard artists chime in on this, they claim that the software is to immature or lacks features that they need. I _wish_ they could switch to open source software, but they've been putting up with Adobe's abuse for a long time now. This new development is unlikely to change anything.

And just to be clear: I wish I was wrong here. I wish they could and did move to open source tooling.

Yet "creatives" have been using PS etc this whole time as a way to magnify their skills anyway, the hypocrites. Using a PS brush the machine is doing 50-90% of the work for them, and therefore what they're producing isn't art, according to their recent dichotomy.