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I've always been skeptical of generative AI being used to make slides. I like the idea of it, and maybe someday we will get there. But right now, they all feel
by hidelooktropic 3y ago
I've always been skeptical of generative AI being used to make slides. I like the idea of it, and maybe someday we will get there. But right now, they all feel like they are trying to fully automate the process where what I really want them to do is automate the tedious parts, co-piloting with me.
Because what ends up happening is I need a high degree of precision and I have a very concrete idea of what I need to present on a slide and exactly how to do it. But because it's fully automated, I have to instead convince the AI to generate my concrete idea on its own. Then I just don't use it entirely. Meanwhile, I go back to tediously making little shapes and moving them into precise locations, aligning things, and so on.
- badwolf 3y agoI feel you. I wish PowerPoint's "Design suggestions" could at least be editable. It will often suggest a similar layout that looks nicer, but with some dumb crayon looking lines. Just let me (re)move that stupid line at the very least.
- guestbest 3y agoThey are automating the parts you want to work on to replace you. The AI is there to be trained until the your part can be eliminated.
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- pquki4 3y agoI tried Copilot on PowerPoint once and I swear I'll never use it again. (Or at least not until it is 10x better.) I asked it to generate slides on a technical topic. I wasn't expecting it to fill in a lot of details, but what I got was 10 slides of stock photos next to some very high-level ideas that almost mean nothing. Think of those presentations that take half an hour but really only has 5 minutes of content. I ended up throwing away the entire thing and start over, creating slides myself.