Fractured Lace is and will always be a product of human creativity. With technology moving at the rate it seems to be moving at, we feel that is worth mentioning! Here is a bit more information on where we stand when it comes to generative AI use here at Fractured Lace.
Long story short: it’s not for us. We don’t use it to design, and we politely request that you don’t feed our work into generative AI either.
All of our pieces are human-designed. Generative AI is never used in the production of our pieces.
All of our pieces are the original product of human imagination and creativity. Fractured Lace uses Adobe Illustrator to create the vectors that are used to produce our pieces. We stick to the ‘basic’ version of the Adobe Creative Suite, because we consciously choose not to use their generative AI offerings. Every curve and stroke of a design is there because we made a conscious decision for it to be there.
Product photography is taken of real pieces. Generative AI is never used in the manipulation of those images.
Simple processes such as levels adjustment, colour balance and exposure correction are used to edit the raw photos we take of our work. These processes are designed to increase image accuracy rather than take away from it. Our aim is always that what you see on the screen is as accurate as possible to the piece that you receive, although there will always be variations of acrylic patterning.
Tools such as the clone brush, healing brush and content-aware fill (a non-generative tool that uses localised pixel cloning to match surrounding areas) may be used to correct small flaws in the image such as removing specks of dust or small finger smudges that inadvertantly make their way onto our photographed surfaces. Again, the use of these tools is to increase the accuracy of the picture to the product.
The text you read on this site is human-written.
There may be one or two instances of AI-assisted writing on the site for small portions of product descriptions – back from when we were playing with AI (closer to its inception). Even then, it was primarily used for inspiration as a bouncing-off point for my own writing, rather than a direct copy of generative AI output. These days, we don’t use it even for that. While we recognise that it might speed up some of those processes slightly, busting out a thesaurus when necessary (and bouncing ideas off of friends) is our preferred option.
If you receive an email or response on social media from us, it was written by us – except in the case of auto-responses, naturally.
No chatbots here!
While we don’t use generative AI ourselves, we acknowledge that we can’t completely avoid its influence.
AI, and generative AI specifically, is being pushed on us all at a rapid rate – and sometimes in ways we can’t completely opt out of. We can’t promise that we won’t skim the AI summary of a Google result to find a source link, or see AI generated images sprinkled in between legitimate photos when we’re seaching for references using a Google Image Search. What we can promise is that we try our best to support and draw our influence from legitimate, human-made work.
Please don’t feed our work into generative AI.
We politely request that you don’t knowingly cause any of our work to be processed by generative AI.
Is there anything else that you’d like us to clarify here? Please get in touch and let us know.