Belsky: Generative AI lowers creative skill floors while raising output ceilings
Scott Belsky · The 5 Ways AI Will Transform Creativity with Adobe CSO & EVP Scott Belsky · Nov 10, 2023 · at 14:57
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Adobe CSO Scott Belsky describes the dual structural impact of generative AI on creative software and industry professionals.
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“It is lowering the bar for the minimum skills required to get into this box, which is a lot of new people coming into the funnel, right, for any creative product, and it's also raising the ceiling, right, of what's possible within the given time that you actually have”
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