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How ChatGPT made me realize where bad design comes from

AI is prompting us to do better design.

Pete Sena
UX Collective
9 min readMar 15, 2023
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There’s no question that AI is revolutionizing design — hell; it’s already an indispensable tool that I constantly use to help me condense the time from idea to action in my professional and personal life.

Now, with the advent of GPT-4, the just-released multi-modal product from Open AI, the promise is even better results using both text and images, and eventually, audio and video.

GPT-4 using an image as a prompt
Source: Open AI

Exciting, right? Yes, and while it theoretically changes everything, it can’t change one crucial factor: the human element.

I’m not talking about emulating humans — if you ask ChatGPT itself if it’s going to replace people, it tells you this:

“As an AI language model, I am not designed or intended to replace humans. My purpose is to assist and enhance human capabilities by providing helpful and informative responses to queries and questions. While AI technology continues to advance and evolve, it is unlikely that machines will ever fully replace human beings. We each have unique strengths and abilities, and there will always be tasks and…

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Written by Pete Sena

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