Is anyone using it?
What are its benefits? costs?
Has it changed the way that you use your Mac or other device in any way?
I briefly tried it to play with the AI-assisted image generator on my iPad Pro, but quickly lost interest. This AI stuff still seems like a gimmick to me, one for which everyone is jumping on the bandwagon to support. It reminds me of 3D movies from 10+ years ago. It was all the rage - until it wasn’t. But until there’s a killer AI app or capability, it will remain a novelty.
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I’ve not used it specifically, I think it’s now On by default, but the only part I like is in the Photos application, the 'Clean Up" option when editing is pretty handy, sometimes it messes up, but anything it does can be undone, cmd-z, try something else… It’s allowed me to go back in travel photos, erase some of the other tourists, show more of the subject… Works well on my Mac & iPhone… That means Photoshop sets idle now… I had dropped back to Elements, and it could be updated, but I don’t see the need now… So better… Will see what else over time…
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That sounds like a good use case for it. I wish it could be turned on only in certain apps. I have it turned off in system settings on my Mini and Air. My iOS devices don’t support it.
So far all I’ve used it for is to touch up photos. I used it to remove a power line in one photo a few days ago. But I am seriously considering turning it off on my phone because I suspect it is using too much battery power right now. But I’ll turn it off as a trial to see if battery life improves. Really not necessary because my battery never goes below 30% now, but still I start getting nervous at 50% battery … LOL.
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My main home Mac is an Intel iMac, so I don’t use it there, but my iPad Pro and my MBP are M1’s.
I have no use for it. The e-mail summaries are of messages that AI thinks are important to me but are not. And I’m very confident in my writing ability and don’t need AI for it.
I tried using Playground on images of my family and myself, and while I think it does a passable job on my wife and sons, all of the images it makes of me look very Indian (Asian), and two of the images of me are women. Yeesh, I’m neither Indian (though I am dark complexioned) nor a woman, and while my hair is long-ish, why did it think I was wearing earrings? One thing it got right is that I am, admittedly, portly.
-awlabrador
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