Adobe Photoshop AI
Adobe! Welcome to the War on Cars!
Photoshop has launched its generative AI. Removing cars is now a click away!
There have been a lot of fun explorations into what this tool can generate. I started to wonder what it could do with my novice pictures of folks riding bikes around town.
AI is only as good as what you put into it. It seems that Adobe AI hasn’t read through much urbanism yet. Adobe has no idea what a bike lane is! Here are the attempts at “Add a bike lane”.
In ways this makes sense. The U.S. is pretty bad at bike lanes in general.
The AI also has no idea how to handle a raised crosswalk or improved pedestrian safety. Here are the attempts for “raised crosswalk”.
Shall we add a pedestrian to the sidewalk? Except it seems to have removed the sidewalk when adding a pedestrian.
Next up we add a bus! Mostly user error but the bus is on the wrong side of the road.
Ending with a streetcar!
Again mostly user error that I selected a space that was on the grass. I also did not deselect the person on a bike so we get some AI version of a person riding a bicycle.