Figma AI Is a Rip-Off Engine
Andy Allen:
Figma AI looks rather heavily trained on existing apps.
This is a “weather app” using the new Make Designs feature and the
results are basically Apple’s Weather app (left). Tried three
times, same results.
This is even more disgraceful than a human rip-off. Figma knows what they trained this thing on, and they know what it outputs. In the case of this utter, shameless, abject rip-off of Apple Weather, they’re even copying Weather’s semi-inscrutable (semi-scrutable?) daily temperature range bars.
“AI” didn’t do this. Figma did this. And they’re handing this feature to designers who trust Figma and are the ones who are going to be on the hook when they present a design that, unbeknownst to them, is a blatant rip-off of some exist app.
Maybe now that the Adobe deal fell through, Figma is looking to sell itself to Samsung?
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Andy Allen:
Figma AI looks rather heavily trained on existing apps.
This is a “weather app” using the new Make Designs feature and the
results are basically Apple’s Weather app (left). Tried three
times, same results.
This is even more disgraceful than a human rip-off. Figma knows what they trained this thing on, and they know what it outputs. In the case of this utter, shameless, abject rip-off of Apple Weather, they’re even copying Weather’s semi-inscrutable (semi-scrutable?) daily temperature range bars.
“AI” didn’t do this. Figma did this. And they’re handing this feature to designers who trust Figma and are the ones who are going to be on the hook when they present a design that, unbeknownst to them, is a blatant rip-off of some exist app.
Maybe now that the Adobe deal fell through, Figma is looking to sell itself to Samsung?