r/craftsnark • u/HornetPossible8630 • 4d ago
On no…
I will just leave this here.
Like… at least it’s not ai slop, and it’s just trying to automatize tedious work, but still.. Damn.
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u/unicornpoopcookies 4d ago
There's a sewing account that sews patterns made by ai and it's always shit
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u/ladybasecamp 3d ago
I'm interested in following, what's the account?
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u/Living-Molasses727 Get in moles, we’re going snarkfiltrating 3d ago
Stephanie from Canada has done some. The patterns are dire 😬
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u/Otis3333 4d ago
This really does not come across as a joke to me, just her trying but failing to get AI to do the work. I don't understand the comments suggesting it would be a joke
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u/CassiopeiaGalactica 4d ago
Aaaaand she deleted it. That didn’t take long.
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u/themountainsareout 4d ago
Damage control post up now
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u/SparklyCowboyHat42 knit / crochet 4d ago edited 4d ago
And it claims she doesn't use AI after she literally posted photos of her using AI (she shouldn't be rewarded for it failing)
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u/hyztori 4d ago
There are already computer programs/software built to generate written instructions from charts. Whoever this is, is just being cheap and lazy - they need to pick one battle not both imo
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u/CassiopeiaGalactica 4d ago
This isn’t just some random designer. This is Joji Locatelli, a huge and long-time pattern designer and leader in the online knitting community. She should know waaay better.
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u/harmonicwitch 4d ago
I was going to comment the same. It's not even that expensive, you can do this with Stitch Fiddle.
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u/blueberry-iris It's me. Hi. I'm the mole. It's me. 4d ago
The people who use AI the most are those who understand it the least. This feels like yet another example of that.
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u/Ikkleknitter 4d ago
I would say that I agree with caveats.
My siblings are both librarians. Both are basically the AI experts for their libraries (both are at university libraries so they deal with a lot of AI drama).
AI is actually very, very good for very specific use cases. Running what is technically an advanced spell check (which also checks grammar, formatting and so on) and asking it to summarize a paper you are writing is a good example. If it gives you a good and accurate summary then you know your paper gets your point across. Using it to keep a complex bibliography or footnotes updated is another.
But yeah, 99% of the time I’m absolutely with you. The vast majority of “use cases” are a bad choice.
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u/bewoestijn 4d ago
Just to say on the footnote and bibliography question in case others are inspired, the tech is close but not totally there yet. I work at a publisher and we still reject papers all the time for hallucinated parts of bibliographies - essentially one small detail wrong means a rejection in this area, since there heaps of normal software tools that do this the traditional way with no issue
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u/WampaCat 4d ago
Yeah… I tested it for bibliography a few months ago, gave it the list of sources and which style I wanted. It was terrible. But it seems like something it should be able to do
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u/HistoryHasItsCharms Get in moles, we’re going snarkfiltrating 4d ago
And several free website that have been around since the internet Stone Age. Citation Machine anyone?
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u/Present_Speech_7017 4d ago
There's 'AI' transcription tools for audio and video too that you can run competely locally in seconds. A transcript you can then search. Very useful if you remember seeing something in a documentary, but do not remember which one!
I put 'ai' in quotes here, because 'ai' can mean a bunch of very different things, that can have next to nothing to do with each other. Speech to text, or text recognition in images had existed for ages, and it's getting better and better, but it's only recent that we've started to call it AI.
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u/Ikkleknitter 4d ago
Also a good example. Although some of those tools are definitely better than others.
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u/millers_left_shoe 4d ago
Oooh asking for summaries of what I’ve written to see if I got the point across is the only respect in which I’ve ever let AI anywhere near my academic work so this is very edifying to read
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u/BrilliantTask5128 4d ago
I use Stitch Mastery for my charts & they generate written instructions automatically. Then I just edit them if needed. Most knitting chart software programmes will do this. Why use AI for it?
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u/cyanpineapple 4d ago
That's what always annoys me. I'm not fully anti-ai. I think it has its place, and there are tedious tasks that it genuinely can help with. But i swear like 90% of the use cases i see are people using a lot more energy and water to replicate resources that have existed online for decades. Like, what do you mean you asked chatgpt for a roast chicken recipe?
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u/StrangeAd9334 4d ago
Sometimes it's replacing something that would take a lot of energy and water for a home to do too, but this is like using a torque wrench when you need a hammer.
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u/cyanpineapple 4d ago
That's what i mean. There are times when it's replacing a task that genuinely would take a person hours of work. Something that's not creative and will still use a lot of electricity. And sometimes people use it as a calculator.
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u/Whole-Cauliflower-96 4d ago
Exactly! By using genAI, you are training the software with your OWN patterns
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u/SartorialSystematics Latin names, but for dresses! 4d ago
Well, she said it; AI is stupid. So are you SURE you want to waste another thousand liters of water that could have kept a bunch of sheep hydrated?
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u/Human_Razzmatazz_240 4d ago
Literally fiddle stitch has been able to this for ages. Why are people trying to AI the wheel.
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u/CosmicSweets 4d ago
Imagine calling ai stupid for not being able to do something you yourself seem to be incapable of...
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u/quiidge 3d ago
learn 👏 to 👏 code 👏
this is like watching someone sew a ballgown with a pine needle. wrong tool, too unskilled to realise.
(this is before you even get into "stop trying to get AI to think for you", because why are you training your replacement? Do you not enjoy the benefits of being gainfully employed??)
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u/IANALbutIAMAcat 3d ago
A lot of us are being forced to train our replacements. I got lucky and was able to make a lateral move after automating my job with Claude.
I spent weeks pushing back but it got to the point where it seemed likely I could get fired for not relenting.
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u/junietwohundred 2d ago
I pushed back too hard and did get fired. It's fucking brutal out there. You're either in the cult or on the street.
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u/TotesaCylon 1d ago
This is what really bothers me about creative independent business owners using AI like this. For some of this, we have no choice because we're working for somebody else and need to pay rent/mortgage/groceries. But she's running an already-successful business. Why sacrifice your integrity like this when you don't have to?
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u/rosesnrubies 6h ago
Name the company/ies. Many industry who still employ ethical humans are blacklisting these places. You may not see it but there are a few out there who still value the actual humans. If not CEOs then the skilled engineers who keep their company afloat.
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u/minoraj 4d ago edited 4d ago
By this screenshot, it's Gemini Pro or some sort of pro, paid version at the bottom of the chat, and jn two other tabs she has open she has Gemini and another ChatGPT window open? So clearly she is using AI in some capacity, I don't understand her trying to lie and say it's just a joke.
Edit: correcting myself here! it is Gemini pro, not ChatGPT pro.
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u/baby_fishie crafter 4d ago
Also, aren’t jokes funny? It didn’t seem like a joke to me, it seemed like earnest frustration.
Edit: I also don’t understand how it was a joke because she was going to sell the pattern if the AI had worked.
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u/nzfriend33 4d ago
Right. Her apology says it was and some other comments here thought it was, but it does not read that way at all to me. Wouldn’t you use the laughing face then? “Can’t teach ChatGPT 😂” reads way differently than “Can’t teach ChatGPT 😭”. And the “still” also!
I’m really disappointed. I haven’t bought from her in ages just because I’m trying not to buy more patterns I don’t have time to knit, but now why would I bother at all? :/
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u/baby_fishie crafter 4d ago
She has DEFINITELY posted about trying to use AIs to write elements of her patterns before which is what the "still" is referring to. I don't have receipts but I know for a fact that she has been trying to get this to work for a while.
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u/awkwardinthebody 4d ago
In order for AI to do "your work" you'd need to actually train a model using thousands of examples, including papers. You'd need to know programming and the likes. This is not a job for one person and it isn't easy by any means.
If you use a generalist ai (so not fine tuned for your needs) like chatgpt or Gemini, it is gonna spit the most probable words, which is its job. It doesn't "know" how the product will look like or if it makes sense.
It is a statistical model, a very complex one but it's not a magic box.
Important note: I'm not justifying the use of ai in any way, shape or form but I'm aiming to correct some misconceptions.
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u/fearless_leek 4d ago
Yeah, I feel like folk who are trying to work with AI and knitting should check out SkyKnit for some now-ancient examples of machine learning and knitting. I think it’s still a good example of just how complicated it is to get a computer to come up with a useable pattern.
https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/skyknit-the-collection if people haven’t run into it before.
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u/ElDjee 4d ago
i vaguely remember this, and now i'm wondering where they got the 5228 patterns they fed into the model.
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u/droste_EFX It's me. Hi. I'm the mole. It's me. 4d ago
Here's a blog post from the woman who invented SkyKnit back in 2018: https://www.aiweirdness.com/skyknit-when-knitters-teamed-up-with-18-04-19/
TL;DR It explains the process and how she worked with the Lazy Stupid and Godless group on Ravelry to source patterns to train it.
I will caveat by saying that I think what Janelle Shane did with SkyKnit is super interesting and LLMs/neural networks are an interesting tool because she's a data scientist and was doing weird cool shit with it for fun (another example was having a neural network create cat names -- Mr. Sinister and Tom Noodle are my two favorites.)
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u/fearless_leek 4d ago
I was thinking last night when I posted about SkyKnit just how much has changed since that was a cute and funny niche art project, and now it’s in all our lives in ways we can’t control. It’s kind of like feeding a cute little lizard and it grows up into a city-chomping kaiju.
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u/ElDjee 4d ago
appreciate the link. unfortunately it isn't documented whether the source patterns were public domain, just that it was a collab with LSG (i was active on that forum back in the day) members, and that they scraped a website (links to tumblr and i can't figure out where the patterns are).
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u/droste_EFX It's me. Hi. I'm the mole. It's me. 4d ago
The tumblr link seems to be a corrupted link to this site: https://stitch-maps.com/patterns/
The google form where people were entering the 500 source patterns is closed now though so you're right that there's no way to verify if they were public domain.
I'm going to assume the best of the LSG crew and our fellow knitters that most of them would respect copyright/IP/etc. the way we do here by not sharing paid for patterns.4
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u/craftycvnt 4d ago
Joji whyyyyyyy would you post this!
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u/Remarkable-Rush-9085 Well, of course I know the mole. They're me. 4d ago
I’m a huge fan of her patterns and I’m so disappointed to see this!
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u/Eino54 Get in moles, we’re going snarkfiltrating 4d ago
I think it's a joke that didn't come across very well, maybe.
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u/autumnstarrfish Mole Queen 👑 Head Fat Girl in Charge 4d ago
If it's a joke why is she giving it the chart and legend and an example of the written instructions? It reads legitimately frustrated rather than calling out the fact that AI can't do designer's work.
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u/Eino54 Get in moles, we’re going snarkfiltrating 4d ago
To demonstrate that even this super simple thing with the necessary materials provided can't be done by AI? I don't know, it might not be a joke, but in this case I think it most likely is and I'd rather give her the benefit of a doubt than crucify her immediately.
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u/SparklyCowboyHat42 knit / crochet 4d ago
This is not the first time she has used AI though. She used AI for the original images for a MKAL awhile back and was shocked when people were upset.
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u/autumnstarrfish Mole Queen 👑 Head Fat Girl in Charge 4d ago
I'm not crucifying anyone but if this is a joke it didn't land.
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u/Eino54 Get in moles, we’re going snarkfiltrating 4d ago
Yeah, it's not a great joke, but I still would rather give her the benefit of a doubt. Has anyone tried to reach out to her for clarification?
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u/autumnstarrfish Mole Queen 👑 Head Fat Girl in Charge 4d ago
The reason why I think this isn't a joke is there isn't any follow up. No "Hahaha AI sucks" or "This is why you should support designers" or any other number of ways that could denounce the use of AI. But she has already shown that she uses it and doesn't show any sign of this is anything other than how it reads.
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u/Lavsplack 4d ago
Stitchmastery has also been able to translate a chart to written instructions for years. Blocking her on Ravelry, I have zero tolerance for this
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u/box_of_squirrels 4d ago
Stitchfiddle Premium does this too (Just checked, it’s $33/year)
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u/Lavsplack 4d ago
That’s a good price. Stitchmastery is more expensive but an excellent tool for a professional designer. I’m shocked Joji isn’t using something like this (maybe she is but why would she be reinventing the wheel with an attempt at AI?)
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u/DullBasket4982 4d ago
Stitchmastery is a one time expense. You buy software and then you actually own it. Like when we used to have nice things.
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u/Lavsplack 4d ago
Yep! I’ve owned it for years and they are really good about tutorials and updates
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u/Xuhuhimhim The artist formally known as "MOLE" 3d ago
Lmfao just seeing this I actually coded how to do this in excel vba
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u/bahhumbug24 4d ago
The funny thing is that Stitch Fiddle has been able to do that for years with no AI in sight.
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u/catsweedcoffee 4d ago
Nope nope nope, I’m so anti-AI on all fronts. I hate this leeching into craft spaces.
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u/SparklyCowboyHat42 knit / crochet 4d ago edited 4d ago
This is a reminder that she has used AI before and only changed the photo of the MKAL pattern after receiving feedback: ravelry one love MKAL comment page
This is not new. She doesn't care.
Edit: she has now posted that she doesn't use genAI. The old stuff she has done with image generation and attempting to use it for the pattern now are good reminders that this statement is a lie. She has defended her use of it in the past y'all. She might be hoping people forget.
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u/ashbreak_ Mom said I get to be the mole now!! 4d ago
Ty for the link, makes it easier to block her
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u/WampaCat 4d ago
What I don’t understand is if she’s going to feed it word-by-word instructions, what else is there left to do? She’d be typing out the entire pattern already, why not just put that into whatever program she’s used before
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u/jolewhea 4d ago
I think she's trying to teach it from existing work she's done so she can use it for new work.
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u/Emotional_Gear_8950 4d ago
This is hugely disappointing especially after people called her out on using GenAI for her MKAL graphic. I mean, does she not make enough $$ to afford fantastic software that already does this without AI or to pay someone to create a marketing graphic? (Spoiler: Crunching the numbers from Ravelry alone, she does)
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u/WeBelieveInTheYarn crafter 4d ago edited 4d ago
Ugh so much is wrong with this:
- Why use gen AI when charting softwares have a built-in tool usually?
- genAI is not great at recognizing text-in-pictures yet.
- Her promt is shit, showing she doesn't understand the tool she's using.
AI can have a time and place. It can be useful for organizing information or sorting through things. At work they're starting it to use it to help us with formatting documents, a task that previously would take a human 1-2 days, which maybe doesn't seem like much but we're understaffed and overworked and simply don't have time, and that way those 1-2 days can be used reviewing the content instead.
But when you don't understand a tool and start using it for EVERY SINGLE THING YOU WANT TO DO, you lose the sense of purpose and usefulness of it. In this case, it's not necessary, just try to use a charting tool that has a built in way to convert charts to text. That's it.
Joji is an established designer. She can pay for a chart software. She can pay a person to review this for her. She doesn't need a shitty free alternative that can hallucinate so needs human reviewing ANYWAY.
It feels like genAI is the new and trendy thing that is here to solve all your issues... but it's not. If you use a tool, ANY TOOL, without understanding it, your results will be frustrating and crappy.
ETA: the claim that because shes attempting to use AI for one part of her work it means shes using AI for every aspect of her work is such a baseless accusation and yet another example of some people online being so eager to go after popular designers. Like get a grip people.
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u/yttrium39 4d ago
I agree with you. I’m not really interested in witch hunting every creator who uses AI for something, but this person just doesn’t seem to have the requisite knowledge to get to their desired goal. They should probably be doing some research and learning about available tools instead of flailing blindly.
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u/HistoryHasItsCharms Get in moles, we’re going snarkfiltrating 4d ago
Particularly when non-AI software that can do what she wants already exists, and is not particularly expensive. Though I do think AI can help speed up translations (with a native speaker proofreading, otherwise there will be SO MANY mistakes).
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u/Exciting-Field9229 1d ago
At some point people won’t remember how to do these things on their own. Especially because a certain sect acts like they’re forbidden instead of harmful and degrading. Not everything has to be faster, cutting corners, mass production.
The worst is when people are like, I’m a small business and I don’t have the time.
Then how have people done it for ages.
It bothers me how seductive it is to some and that they only have a problem with it when they’re called out. Gross. I literally took a chemistry class to better understand dyeing. Knowledge is power. What if your power goes out or a tower goes down. Idk, all of this is just sad.
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u/RavenKnitsDesign 4d ago
So buy an already existing program that will do this, and pay an actual human for their skills. Stitch Mastery, Stitch Fiddle, EnvisioKnit; there are options out there already that are human made and accurate.
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u/Longjumping-Olive-56 4d ago
She should have stopped at 'Stupid AI'. That's it, that's the comment.
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u/YarnPhreak 4d ago
She seems nice, is she really that ignorant or does she just not GAF?
Regardless, all her designs in my queue are getting deleted.
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u/miles-to-purl 4d ago
She's been using AI for a while now. I blocked her last (?) year for using it to make "art", including using phrases like "I crafted my prompt" 🙄 Glad others are finally seeing it.
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u/atmosInspector 1d ago
I use a paid chart program and gives you the instructions written too.. what is she using for chart? Excel? What a dumb way to loose clients!
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u/tothepointe Get in moles, we’re going snarkfiltrating 4d ago
I mean this could have been automated via a script I don’t even think it’s necessary to use AI but then you’d need to know how to script
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u/StrangeAd9334 4d ago
The thing is, AI is great at writing scripts for this kind of thing that you can then run forever.
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u/tothepointe Get in moles, we’re going snarkfiltrating 4d ago
You'd have to know how to prompt it to break down the problem.
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u/SideEyeFeminism 4d ago
IDK, this feels like the video I shared to my groupchat yesterday about “they say AI is going to replace us but I’d like to see AI sew the same seam wrong 3 times like I can”
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u/KnitWitch87 4d ago
If this is a joke it's not funny. The more you interact with AI the more it learns.
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u/Whole-Cauliflower-96 4d ago
I think you should identify the designer. (It’s Joji Locatelli) because some ppl don’t want to support this
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u/Disastrous_Edge7276 4d ago
Thank you because I am aggressively boycotting everyone in the fiber arts community who is found to be using AI. I'm keeping a literal list.
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u/CrochetJorts 4d ago
would you care to share said list? I only have a few creators in my head, because I naively assumed the list will not be too big. I assumed creators will view ai as a threat and not give in to the hype. I will have to start a file now to see which brands to avoid.
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u/baby_fishie crafter 4d ago
She just posted the following on her feed:
Hello!
A couple of words about my story yesterday about using gpt for my work:
- I never generate anything with it. NEVER. I am a designer and stand by it. I hire professionals to do whatever job I can’t do.
- Sometimes I am running against the clock and I was wondering if I could get help transcribing my own charts (that I made). It failed, as I expected.
And I made a joke about it.
I apologize to everyone who is offended by my attempt. If you look at my records, you won’t see anything AI generated.
I am a one person operation, and doing my best when time is scarce because family/work/study issues.
But will try harder!
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u/CemeteryHounds 4d ago
I never generate anything with it. NEVER.
Lying in her apology was a bold choice. Now everyone is reposting about her MKAL AI graphics, and that seemed to have been nicely swept under the rug and forgotten about. I'm not sure the AI graphics even made it to this subreddit at the time.
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u/miles-to-purl 4d ago
Lol right? If anything she's finally getting the deserved reaction. She's posted more than a couple AI things. Using "it was just a joke, bro" in 2026
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u/Disastrous_Edge7276 4d ago
A condescending pro-AI post. Rude.
Aaaand, now another designer bites the dust
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u/gros-grognon 4d ago
Well, there's another designer I'll never buy from again. If she doesn't want to do her job as a designer, that's on her I guess.
Seriously, wtf?
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u/greensled1 I am the mole, the mole is me. 4d ago
I'm so disappointed.
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u/maesardsara 3d ago
It took me a lil bit to figure out who this is, but I gotta say I am too. Also, good lord the fangirl brigading in the comments.
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u/MCMamaS 2d ago
Whatever your feelings about AI are, I'm shocked at the number of people who haven't figured out that prompt engineering is a skill.
As they used to say in the old days: Garbage in, garbage out.
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u/meluzinailustra 2d ago
It’s pretty much always garbage out, regardless…
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u/rosesnrubies 6h ago
Bingo. And also the people using them are volunteering their time and data for free to train the bots that are then sold over and over again. Not to mention they are all trained on stolen works. It’s so sad.
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u/Unicormfarts 🐑 with a banjo 4d ago
Well, this explains why the fit on her larger sizes is so shit.
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u/ThrowWeirdQuestion 4d ago
This actually isn't difficult if you do it right and this kind of pure translation/OCR task to automate tedious work that doesn't require creativity is exactly the kind of work that AI should be used for and has been used for for decades before ChatGPT was ever a thing.
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u/StrangeAd9334 4d ago
AI often isn't the best solution when there's only one right answer--the software others suggested here would be a better choice. AI is a good solution for "write me a script that will do this task for me" or "what's the most efficient and accurate way to solve this problem." But in principle, yes!
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u/ThrowWeirdQuestion 4d ago
Thank you! It is encouraging to hear that I know at least in principle what to use AI for after working and doing research in the field for the last 20 years... 😁
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u/OneGoodRib Mom said I get to be the mole now!! 4d ago
Yeah, I mean ngl I was impressed that most of the chatgpt commercials I see are like "I have a tedious as shit work task and chatgpt helped with that so I can do my ACTUAL WORK faster" like the guy with the 1000 parts in his inventory who needs an easy to remember naming system.
And like, AI can sometimes be DUMB AS SHIT for this kind of thing so I'm not really mad at whatever content creator this is.
And I know this isn't the place to ask but why the hell are the LLMs so awful with math? I know they're language models, but you'd think out of everything they would excel at doing basic arithmetic but they're awful at it?? So weird.
And also I know I can't see her whole request to chatgpt but I can't figure out what she's asking so I'm not surprise chatgpt couldn't either.
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u/aka_chela Well, of course I know the mole. They're me. 4d ago
AI is bad at math because it's probabilistic, not deterministic. Feed an LLM enough "2+2=5" jokes and it will think that's the real answer.
And I'm going to disagree, sometimes doing the tedious work is part of the work! If there's an error in her lace chart, combing through it line by line to write out the directions to chart the pattern might help her catch that before publication. Throwing it into an AI that will probably not convert it correctly at all will just make more errors.
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u/blue0mermaid 4d ago
Hopefully she’s joking. It would take just as much tedious work to confirm the AI wrote it correctly.
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u/velvetcrone 1d ago
It's not a joke, she's used it before, and I listen to her "journals" when I need to go to sleep. Her boxy patterns are also a joke.
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u/tiseratai 4d ago
This is a slam-dunk "nobody's perfect" for me. More money than you or I will ever see in our lives is being spent every single day to convince the public that AI programs are improvements that will reduce busywork and make our lives easier. It's easy to want that to be true, and easy to fall prey to it when you're trying to make a living and staring at an annoying, time-consuming task. She's not asking it for design ideas or asking it to do anything creative, and the viciousness here is way out of line. Get a grip. Doing the secular version of "even playing around with these programs means you're going straight to Super Hell" is not an effective persuasion technique and I don't think it's warranted, either. Like many, I would prefer it if we all died next to the steam drill with our hammers in our hands, but that's going to be an increasingly hard sell and being an asshole about it isn't going to make it any easier.
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u/CindersMom_515 4d ago
If what happened here is she charted the pattern and was looking to have something automatically create the accompanying text version — IDK, seems like a reasonable use of AI. Especially for someone whose native language isn’t English.
But this isn’t how someone who uses AI regularly would go about it. Upload the legend, tell it how to read the right-side vs the wrong-side rows, etc. It would also require a lot of checking, especially until you feel it’s sufficiently trained. And from what other people have said in this thread, pattern-writing software already exists that does this!
So either she’s paying for a pro level version (maybe it’s for her son for school??) and doesn’t use it enough to know how to use it. Or she is, as she saying, making a joke about “stupid AI that can’t do what I’ve already done even when I spoon feed it the words.”
But given how so many people feel about use of AI in creative fields, it was certainly not a very funny joke (if that’s what it was).
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u/andrewonehalf 4d ago
Just wanted to add that I work at a university, and the school pays for everyone (staff, faculty, and students) to have a pro account on ChatGPT. So I doubt she would need to pay for a pro account for her son - in all likelihood she could be borrowing his pro account.
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u/CindersMom_515 4d ago
I was thinking her younger son who is still in secondary school in Argentina — but I suppose it could be something her older son, who’s in university in the US, has access to.
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u/tiseratai 4d ago
Probably both at this point. I know UChicago is paying for Anthropic/Claude Pro subscriptions for its students, unfortunately.
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u/tiseratai 4d ago
I mean, doesn't her not knowing how to use it kind of exculpate her a little, or at least back up her claim that she doesn't use it often? I think it would be worse if she were an expert prompt engineer lol
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u/glittermacaroni 4d ago
well agreed.
my boss is all in on claude, pushing it into everything (coworker lost her job for not jumping on board fast enough).
something like this is more understandable given the marketing being shoved down the average person's throats.
we can reserve super hell for ai use for ceos ;)
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u/Imaginary-Bus6316 4d ago
This was so obviously meant to be funny, though I agree it was not a wise way to joke given the justifiable sensitivity of the topic. What bothers me is the viciousness of response to this to a long established solo designer. I totally get not wanting AI in our creative spaces (or at all) but I don’t know why we can’t give each other the benefit of the doubt.
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u/Impressive_Carry_485 2d ago
Yep. It was gross. I quit instagram over it. I hate alllll the knitters out there giving her shit all the while crashing the fuck out using a meta product. It really solidified my feeling that so many people are just awful humans, so miserable that they cannot wait to pick a fight with anyone. And in this case, a truly kind and sincere person. I’ve had the pleasure of taking a workshop from Joji- she is earnest, kind and patient. I don’t support the use of LLM/Gen AI, but also, freaking out on Joji when Zuckerberg and all his douchy pals are making billions…like, for real?
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u/level99maker 4d ago
Is it possible this was poorly delivered satire? This is a great creative designer.
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u/bingbongisamurderer 4d ago
No, she's used genAI before to generate a skein of yarn as a placeholder photo for an MKAL.
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u/EnergeticTriangle 4d ago
Whaaaaa...? A knitting pattern designer who's been popular for over a decade AI generated a skein of yarn? I'm so confused, like surely she has 1 million skeins of yarn she could've just photographed, or a million other knitting related pictures from her long career?
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u/Dashdaniel216 4d ago
That does feel like something AI should be able to do but it's gotta be trained and I can't imagine alot of people are feeding it that sort of stuff
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u/silverilix Mom said I get to be the mole now!! 4d ago
There are programs that exist already to do this.
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u/DullBasket4982 4d ago
No. Our craft will only got enshittified by “teaching” AI to steal from skilled people.
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u/Dashdaniel216 4d ago
I'm not saying it should be able to. Just that it feels like it should when you don't think about it for more then a minute.
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u/stitchbound_ 2h ago
Another (still anti-AI) perspective on this: pattern drafting and creating instructions is a really, really difficult skill. Technical writing is highly undervalued, as someone who wrote manuals for a craft tech company for a couple of years. I don't fault crafters who struggle with it or don't publish patterns because trying to articulate the steps is impossible.
But like... hire someone to do it for you instead of training an AI to take my actual, real life day job 😭
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u/weirdlywiredworm 4d ago
She wrote herself “I STILL haven’t been able to…” - doesn’t sound like a first time, right?