Procreate Illustration App for iPad Will Not Combine Generative AI Options, Says Creativity Is ‘Not Generated’

Procreate, the illustration app for iPad, issued an announcement on Monday highlighting that generative synthetic intelligence (AI) won’t ever be added to the software program. The announcement comes at a time when Apple goes all out with its suite of generative AI choices bundled as Apple Intelligence. The designing app additionally seems as an outlier amongst rivals resembling Adobe and Canva which have closely invested in AI instruments within the final one 12 months. Procreate additionally stated that AI is an ethical risk to human creativity.

Procreate Says No to Generative AI

In a submit on its web site titled “AI just isn’t our future”, Procreate defined its stance on the expertise that the majority tech corporations have been dashing to combine inside its choices. The submit highlighted generative AI as one “constructed on a basis of theft”, probably hinting on the numerous lawsuits in opposition to AI corporations by artists, musicians, and authors alleging their copyrighted work was used to coach the AI fashions.

The corporate additionally said that it doesn’t want to chase a expertise which is a “ethical risk” to human creativity. Though it admitted that selecting this path would make Procreate an anomaly within the design software program business as most of its rivals have already pivoted to AI, it added that it determined to not use AI to maintain the platform community-centric.

Highlighting this additional, Savage Interactive, Procreate’s mum or dad firm, said that generative AI violates firm coverage of offering privateness and letting the creators take possession of their paintings.

In a separate submit on X (previously often known as Twitter), Procreate CEO James Cuda highlighted his dislike for AI and likewise emphasised that he doesn’t approve of the trail taken by the business when it comes to integrating generative AI instruments in design software program.

Notably, the Procreate app for iPad will be bought for a one-time fee of Rs. 1,299. There may be additionally a Procreate Pocket app out there for iOS within the App Retailer, which is priced Rs. 599 as a one-time fee.