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Scott Belsky: Contextual UI prompts matter as much as underlying AI models
“One of the most important insights was, and maybe as important as building a great family of models. And I can talk more about Firefly and the underlying models and how we trained it and how we didn't train it and everything else, but was simply the insight of…”
Belsky: AI detection algorithms will never catch media manipulators
“We're never going to catch the bad actors because anyone can, you know, make anything and it's a cat and mouse game to have algorithms that tell whether something was edited or not.”
Belsky: Adobe data shows AI is increasing creative hiring, not reducing it
“So in our data, we're still seeing this revolution drive hiring more as opposed to reducing the hiring.”
Scott Belsky predicts local LLMs on personal devices will suffice for most
“I think that verticals will be important. I think the LMs will be abundant. And I actually think at some point, maybe relatively soon, we'll realize that some LMs, even locally running LMs on our machines are enough for a lot of the actions that we want to do …”
Adobe trained its Firefly AI models exclusively on licensed material
“We wanted to train off of licensed material that we had a license to train off of.”
Belsky: Repetitive design work like banner ad formatting is already replaced by AI
“The job of someone turning squares into rectangles all day for banner ads, that job's been replaced by AI.”
Scott Belsky: Hourly business models are broken in the age of AI
“And so I'm starting to wonder if value-based pricing models are really going to replace time-based pricing models and a lot of the functions of like, very sophisticated work. And also, what are the tools that allow us to know how to price our work, right? But …”
Scott Belsky admits a significant portion of daily Photoshop downloaders get lost
“For all the people that download any of these desktop products like Photoshop every day, the number of people that get lost or can't feel successful in the product is really Significant.”
Belsky: CAI has 2,000 partners, including Nikon, Canon, Sony, and Leica
“We now have 2000 partners, Nikon, Canon, Sony, and Leica have all come out with cameras. They now add counter-credentials to assets by default taking in their camera so that when they come into Photoshop or Lightroom or third-party products of other companies,…”
Belsky: Brands will flood the market with content, raising the engagement bar
“We're entering a world where, first of all, every brand's gonna absolutely flood the zone with content. That's gonna make the bar go up for the digital experiences that really engage us.”