First AI-generated and 3D-printed shoe makes its dubious debut
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·January 12, 2025teruakohatu
If there was 1. an artist prompting Midjourney (the AI) to create an image 2. the selecting the good images, and then 3. interpreted the 2D images to create 3D model that is printable, it is not "AI-generated".
That is like saying all code is now AI-generated because human programmers are using Copilot. Or all photography is AI-generated because artists tweak the output of the camera in Adobe Lightroom using algorithms.
batch12
To that point, what's the difference between your list and any "Ai" generated work?
add-sub-mul-div
The important threshold in practice is not products made 100% by AI without human assistance.
It's that we're about to live in a world made up of crappier products, crappier service, crappier work because low-paid, cost-saving, untrained labor will be fixing up AI output to be just good enough to sell.
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> The Syntilay company used Midjourney AI to create the basic shape of the shoe, after which an artist drew a sketch based on Midjourney's creation. That image was run back through Vizcom AI to produce a 3D computer model. After that model was created, generative AI was used to apply the patterns to the model, to give it some character.
I assumed this was going to be a functional evolutionary algorithm to make an efficient shape, it's just an image generator and an artist in the loop
karim79
I love it. Soon we'll all be wearing similar shoes, and all have "intelligent agents" in our earphones telling us what to do. Of course, those agents will be operated by one or two companies, and we'll have to outsmart our friends and relatives by subscribing to higher subscription tiers of said companies.
"Get better chat-up lines delivered to your ear in realtime for just USD 19.99 / month - get ahead of the competition by subscribing to $AI_COMPANY_NAME Chivalry Plus! First month is free, cancel anytime."
from-nibly
> the world's first entirely AI-designed
> after which an artist drew a sketch
So are we just fudging the word entirely now?
dartos
Is this an ad?
dylan604
I'm sure they spent money to have the article written/published. If it were a legit article, it checks a lot of boxes for this crowd with AI and 3D printed.
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DeepYogurt
That looks awful
thatguy0900
Looks about the same as all the other foam slides. I think they're all very ugly as well. Adidas foam runners actually gross me out
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> Syntilay CEO, Ben Weiss, is a serial entrepreneur at only 25 years of age. From podcasts to NFTs and now a shoe company, Weiss is looking to tap into the nearly $100 billion footwear market in the United States (and nearly half a trillion globally).
I think that’s all I need to know.