The creative industry is both concerned and enthusiastic about how generative AI will reshape creativity. How might these tools interact with the workflow values of creative artists? In this paper, we adopt a value-sensitive design framework to examine how generative AI, particularly Photoshop's Generative Fill (GF), helps or hinders creative professionals' values. We obtained 566 unique posts about GF from online forums for creative professionals who use Photoshop in their current work practices. We conducted reflexive thematic analysis focusing on usefulness, ease of use, and user values. Users found GF useful in doing touch-ups, expanding images, and generating composite images. GF helped users' values of productivity by making work efficient but created a value tension around creativity: it helped reduce barriers to creativity but hindered distinguishing 'human' from algorithmic art. Furthermore, GF hindered lived experiences shaping creativity and hindered the honed prideful skills of creative work.
翻译:创意产业对生成式人工智能将如何重塑创造力既担忧又充满期待。这些工具如何与创意从业者的工作流程价值相互作用?本文采用价值敏感设计框架,考察生成式人工智能(特别是Photoshop的生成式填充功能)如何促进或阻碍创意专业人士的价值实现。我们从使用Photoshop进行日常工作的创意从业者在线论坛中收集了566篇关于生成式填充的独立帖子,围绕有用性、易用性和用户价值进行了反思性主题分析。用户发现生成式填充在修图、图像扩展和合成图像生成方面具有实用性。该工具通过提升工作效率促进了用户的生产力价值,但在创造力维度产生了价值张力:它降低了创造力的准入门槛,却模糊了"人类艺术"与算法艺术的界限。此外,生成式填充削弱了塑造创造力的生活体验,并消解了创意工作中经过千锤百炼的自豪技艺。