Figma Disables AI App Design Tool After It Copied Apple’s Weather App (www.404media.co)
from Five@slrpnk.net to technology@beehaw.org on 02 Jul 2024 22:52
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PrimeErective@startrek.website on 02 Jul 2024 23:07 next collapse

Figma balls

podperson@lemm.ee on 02 Jul 2024 23:32 next collapse

Gottttteeeeeeem

drdiddlybadger@pawb.social on 02 Jul 2024 23:51 collapse

This is the only thing I can think when I see that name.

perishthethought@lemm.ee on 02 Jul 2024 23:26 next collapse

I’m curious, what exactly is the problem with this? Does Apple have copyrights on the whole design or each individual visual element? Where would figma get in trouble if they left it working that way?

Ephera@lemmy.ml on 03 Jul 2024 00:16 next collapse

I’m not a lawyer, I could imagine that a copyright claim for a specific app design is viable.
But in this case, it might also just be a case of avoiding bad press and bad blood with Apple.

conorab@lemmy.conorab.com on 03 Jul 2024 04:46 collapse

Could it be a fear of a software patent relating to the design? Back in the day Apple had one for swipe to unlock that prompted Android to use different patterns.

kinttach@lemm.ee on 03 Jul 2024 13:53 next collapse

It’s a PR issue not a legal one.

perishthethought@lemm.ee on 03 Jul 2024 14:25 collapse

Yah. ALl of this makes me think it’s crazy for a company like Figma to even try this. If the designs don’t steal from well known brand, people will say they suck. If they do steal, they get booed as well. Losing proposition, it seems to me.

jarfil@beehaw.org on 03 Jul 2024 15:23 collapse

Apple has copyrights on the looks of every element, and patents on the way they interact. Aldo trademarks, but I doubt they apply in this case.

Some patents may have expired (good thing they don’t last as long as copyrights), some they may not bother to defend (litigate) against small users.

In this case, Figma’s AI seems to repeatedly follow Aple’s design too closely.

BlackEco@lemmy.blackeco.com on 03 Jul 2024 05:58 next collapse

I did not catch on the Figma AI news, but now I can’t wait for every website and mobile app to look the same 🙃

Kissaki@beehaw.org on 03 Jul 2024 06:06 collapse

I’d actually like that if it follows good practicses. I feel like the good ones will continue to be good ones anyway, ignoring unification.

[deleted] on 03 Jul 2024 08:09 collapse

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jarfil@beehaw.org on 03 Jul 2024 15:36 collapse

Some apps have multiple pages, some have a map, some show different timespans of weather predictions with different data, some show photos of places, some allow selecting multiple places but show them differently, some show maritime weather, and so on.

There is a limited amount of creativity, but a properly “creative” AI, should not keep repeating the same design pattern over and over.

[deleted] on 03 Jul 2024 15:58 collapse

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jarfil@beehaw.org on 03 Jul 2024 22:17 collapse

I’m guessing it should’ve been trained on more pattens, and increase that temperature a bit.

To be somewhat creative, it should have a large training set, and an iterative approach to the output. From the looks of it, this one is just a single step LLM, picking design elements one by one.