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Putting AI in MS Paint feels like putting a flux capacitor in a Geo Metro.

by tithe 2y ago

qingcharles 2y ago
I think someone at MS hit their head on the toilet...
- SunlitCat 2y ago
  ...yeah but you know, 1.21 Gigawatts!
dmix 2y ago
This is very close minded. Won't someone think of the MS Paints PM's corporate career prospects if they didn't do this?
jpalomaki 2y ago
I think there's some history to it. Didn't they release Paint 3D around the time when Hololens and mixed reality was about to be the next big thing?
- pjmlp 2y ago
  Yes there was.
- hbn 2y ago
  I recall they were literally going to kill Paint in favor of Paint 3D until they got backlash over it. Does Windows still have a "3D Objects" folder alongside Pictures, Videos, etc? Microsoft seriously has no taste.
mft_ 2y ago
I like the idea that in MS (as probably in so many companies right now) there's a diktat (official or not) to start using AI everywhere. And somewhere on the Paint team someone smiled, and thought "hold my beer"... (Just wait until we get Co-pilot baked into Notepad!)
dale_glass 2y ago
Wasn't that the point of using the DeLorean? That back in those times it was just a weird failed car?
- bonton89 2y ago
  The Delorean was chosen because it's horrendous 0-60 times made the acceleration to 88mph a believably difficult to achieve goal for the protagonist.
dagmx 2y ago
I think it’s the best place to put it though. The demographic are people (usually children) who aren’t discerning about the output but would love to have something high quality to look at. Paint has always been about how some low quality squiggles may represent some latent art ability. It’s not true, but that’s the feeling it gave children and this continues that. Of course there’s the whole other argument of whether it’s good or not….
- thesuitonym 2y ago
  > The demographic are people (usually children) who aren’t discerning about the output but would love to have something high quality to look at. This might be the best argument against putting AI in MS Paint that I've yet seen. I know this is a slippery-slope argument, so take it with the applicable grain of salt, but imagine a world where kids grow up making this kind of generative art, and never progress beyond "low quality squiggles", because they get frustrated when they turn the AI off and it looks bad.

Putting AI in MS Paint feels like putting a flux capacitor in a Geo Metro.

by tithe 2y ago

Putting AI in MS Paint feels like putting a flux capacitor in a Geo Metro.

qingcharles 2y ago

I think someone at MS hit their head on the toilet...

SunlitCat 2y ago
...yeah but you know, 1.21 Gigawatts!

dmix 2y ago

This is very close minded. Won't someone think of the MS Paints PM's corporate career prospects if they didn't do this?

jpalomaki 2y ago

I think there's some history to it. Didn't they release Paint 3D around the time when Hololens and mixed reality was about to be the next big thing?

pjmlp 2y ago
Yes there was.
hbn 2y ago
I recall they were literally going to kill Paint in favor of Paint 3D until they got backlash over it. Does Windows still have a "3D Objects" folder alongside Pictures, Videos, etc? Microsoft seriously has no taste.

mft_ 2y ago

I like the idea that in MS (as probably in so many companies right now) there's a diktat (official or not) to start using AI everywhere. And somewhere on the Paint team someone smiled, and thought "hold my beer"... (Just wait until we get Co-pilot baked into Notepad!)

dale_glass 2y ago

Wasn't that the point of using the DeLorean? That back in those times it was just a weird failed car?

bonton89 2y ago
The Delorean was chosen because it's horrendous 0-60 times made the acceleration to 88mph a believably difficult to achieve goal for the protagonist.

dagmx 2y ago

I think it’s the best place to put it though. The demographic are people (usually children) who aren’t discerning about the output but would love to have something high quality to look at. Paint has always been about how some low quality squiggles may represent some latent art ability. It’s not true, but that’s the feeling it gave children and this continues that. Of course there’s the whole other argument of whether it’s good or not….

thesuitonym 2y ago
> The demographic are people (usually children) who aren’t discerning about the output but would love to have something high quality to look at. This might be the best argument against putting AI in MS Paint that I've yet seen. I know this is a slippery-slope argument, so take it with the applicable grain of salt, but imagine a world where kids grow up making this kind of generative art, and never progress beyond "low quality squiggles", because they get frustrated when they turn the AI off and it looks bad.