Why AI Can't Teach Taste w/ Brooke Hopper | Ep 450
About this episode
Brooke Hopper discusses the limitations of AI in teaching design taste and the importance of intentional friction in creative tools.
Brooke Hopper is Adobe’s first Senior Principal Designer, and one of the people building Firefly from the inside. She tells Chris why Adobe licenses every image it trains on and pays the artists behind it, why she still gets bad results out of the tool she helped build, and why she's skeptical anyone should learn taste from a machine. She makes the case for designing for "intentional friction" instead of removing it, defines what agentic AI means past the buzzword, and names what she wants gen AI to do for designers: less content generated for its own sake, more time spent on the ideas they're genuinely excited about. Timestamps: (00:00) - Intro (01:33) - Brooke Hopper's Path at Adobe (03:26) - The Firefly Love-Hate Relationship (04:58) - Where AI Helps the Creative Process (09:55) - Intentional Friction in Creative Tools (14:41) - AI Patterns and Breaking the Rules (16:27) - Can AI Teach You Design Taste (20:51) - What Is Agentic AI (23:18) - Adobe's Five-Year AI Vision Check out today's guest, Brooke Hopper: Brooke's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brookehopper/ Adobe Firefly: https://firefly.adobe.com/ Check out The Futur…
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