What this misses is that Creative Cloud is much more than a bundle of apps. It includes everything you need around the apps for pro workflows (i.e. fonts, AI, stock, collaboration, etc...).
Basically, there has always been a strong bias and structural constraints toward US / elite views.
I think the core question is why trust has gotten particularly bad over the last decade (I have some ideas, including one side particularly trying to weaken trust in it).
I think the main reason is that places like Twitter provided real-time images of things happening around the world. All it takes is one influencer looking at a photo and talking about it for people to see that reporting is heavily biased. There were also just huge mistakes… like the Weather Channel saying things are terrible and the reporter guy appearing to be struggling to stand while two guys are just walking normally in the background.
There's a couple of problems with Chomsky's book that make it hard to seriously recommend.
The whole book was spent describing a "propaganda model" of news that begins and ends with corporate incentives, profits, and advertising. But he completely ignores the large number of non-profit, independently funded, or publicly owned news sources. And from experience they can exhibit some of the exact same systematized biases! Even without greedy owners.
There's also a lot of conjectures about how news works that simply aren't true or have not existed in decades. He's more interested in pushing his "theory of everything" and making it generic enough to fit any situation anywhere. And the whole idea of using his credibility as a linguist to confidently push a punch of political theories well outside of his actual experience never sat right with me.
There's also an irony that this book was written to combat the media in an era when it was highly trusted and respectable. Now that the media is completely distrusted in America, it's hard to also argue that it's a tool of the elites when it seems dismantling trust in the media is also a tool of elites (which some of his modern contemporaries now argue).
I think the average person is better off reading books about Dick Cheney or the machinations of the War on Terror. You'll actually get a sense how clever people in the seats of power go about actually hijacking the media to take advantage of voters (and the elite!) for particular policy goals.
It shouldn't be a surprise that there's no more trust. And blaming it on one "side" makes no sense because in Chomsky's view power has only one side, not two.
Chomsky and other critical theorists and marxists pointed out that those in power get to dictate what's truth, what's news, what values we should follow. Once you realize that, the next step was supposed to be revolution followed by a world with no power structure.
The various revolutions of the 20th century never worked out that way, and nobody wants to risk their life for that stuff anymore. Meanwhile I think we've all assimilated Chomsky's view that the system is rigged and that everything is a lie or a distortion invented to perpetuate the power structure.
There's no more trust because there's nobody to trust in. You either keep your head down and just try to exist, or you lie to yourself and pick out which lies you want to buy into.
Yes. I think Generative Remove is a perfect example of a use of ai that augments the user. It of course possible to remove items in the past, but now it is much quick / easier.
There are still gaps sometime with quality and control, but both of those are improving at a rapid pace.
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Got it. You want to see some screenshots of the output? (I had been focusing on the process, but let me see if I still have some of the files created).
Yeah, I really like UXP in general, but to your point, it requires that the App expose the APIs. Premiere Pro support is just in beta, so its pretty basic right now.
For what its worth though, they have been open to the feedback and prioritizing requests for this use case when Ive shared with them.
If there anything that would be a specific unlock for you?
That's great, those two things MOGRT and Transcript data support will unlock majority of the work, so we can edit based on in cue and out cue from transcript with overlay graphics. These are open for quite some time.
Sorry for the delay on this and hope you see this.
MOGRT support will be in the uxp 1.0 release. I dont have a specific date to share with you, but around end of summer time frame (subject to change). Will probably be in the beta builds before that, so I would keep an eye out over the next couple of weeks.
Transcriptions are not planned to be in the 1.0 (we are focusing on parity with CEP initially).
Thanks, Yes - its helpful for planning, will wait for MOGRT but since dates are not solid for transcription will try to use whisper until then, its a two step process though. I am assuming MOGRTs will be out before https://developer.adobe.com/developers-live/ for this conference in beta version.
Proof of concept project to create AI Agents for Adobe tools (Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Premiere) by providing an interface to LLMs via the MCP protocol.
It has been really interesting playing with this, seeing how well the agents can control the apps, and understand what they should do. Ive been particularly surprised by how "creative" the agents can be, both in solving how to accomplish tasks, but also in seemingly creative choices in what they do. Really excited (and scared) about this space.
This didn't get enough traction when you posted it :(
This MCP interface is game-changing. The UI is oppressive for beginners in Premiere and there are tasks that require so many clicks to achieve. I need this.
Right now when I'm stuck I just have an LLM talk me through the menu options.
(I work for Adobe)