JAmedia wrote:

I am sure the fanboys will make excuses for Canva just as MAGA still make excuses for Trump.

For your amusement, yesterday’s edition of The Borowitz Report:

Olympics Update: Trump Wins Gold in Downhill Presidency

I like that. IT will go with his FIFA Peace Prize :-)

I am sure the fanboys will make excuses for Canva just as MAGA still make excuses for Trump.

For your amusement, yesterday’s edition of The Borowitz Report:

Olympics Update: Trump Wins Gold in Downhill Presidency

As the Editor of a non-fiction magazine

You may hold the post of Editor in an organisation which produces a magazine, but you are simply the editor of that magazine.

I don't think the Director, Chairman or Secretary of the organisation would ever refer to themselves as the Director, Chairman or Secretary of the magazine. 

JAmedia wrote:

As the Editor of a non-fiction magazine we can't afford to have any suggestion of AI words or images.

As the sole editor (no initial capital required!) why do you refer to yourself as ‘we’? Just curious!

The term is Editor which is a position like Director, Chair, Secretary.  However as noted above "My team and the authors who contribute, many of who are academics, are very anti the use of AI. They say it has no place in their work or profession. (education in particular)" the team plus authors is about 30 people so "we".  In the same way a company director will say "we" when referring to the organisation.

The original point  still stands that Canva is pushing that Canva AI can be used for everything to save time including creating social media, and other, posts. There were several other similar Canva posts. Canva is pushing that Canva == AI  as much as Canva == templates.

I am sure the fanboys will make excuses for Canva just as MAGA still make excuses for Trump.

As the Editor of a non-fiction magazine we can't afford to have any suggestion of AI words or images.

As the sole editor (no initial capital required!) why do you refer to yourself as ‘we’? Just curious!

I shall ignore this. Don't make anything personal, please.

I wish I’d been on here an hour ago! It’s always fun to respond to comments like “I shall ignore this” with “Ignore what?” or some such.

I don't use any form of AI for anything. I do a lot of DTP work as an amateur for all sorts of reasons, and have done for over three decades, and never once have I been asked what software I use. If I were asked, I would happily state that I now use Affinity Studio. If anyone raised any concerns about AI, I would simply tell them that I do not subscribe to Canva AI, and therefore cannot use AI in my work.

I don't know any DTP software that does not offer some form of AI these days, but I shall have to bow to your superior knowledge in this field. Adobe remains the industry standard and does offer AI, which is why I asked that question.

I appreciate that it might not be quite so simple for you.

Is there a reason why you have to tell your readership which DTP software you are using? I ask because I am not a professional publisher.

Perhaps you don't need that sort of integrity in your work?

I shall ignore this. Don't make anything personal, please.

You didn't ignore it, you made a point of replying to it.

It is also very relevant.  My team and the authors who contribute, many of who are academics, are very anti the use of AI. They say it has no place in their work or profession. (education in particular) 

In my profession we developed AI, but that was not in a creative industry.  None of us would ever think of using it for generating words. 
In addition, AI and LLM's will generate buggy proofs that are not a proof. This was being discussed in a [closed] critical systems forum 

So it depends on your profession if you are happy to be connected to AI in your work.  As I said due to their current marketing Canva has reinforced that Canva ==AI in the world's perception.

As for not telling people what Sw we use: the team and authors know.
Many of the authors are academics and as noted they don't approve of AI.

I shall ignore this. Don't make anything personal, please.

The free version does not include the AI stuff. Unless you subscribe, then you are free of it.

Adobe also offers a lot of AI tools: why is it OK for Adobe and not OK for Canva?

Never start a discussion with whataboutisum.

BTW I don't use any Adobe stuff (other than an old  pre AI versions of Dreamweaver and Lightroom)

The perception across many forums is Canva == AI, also that Canva is for amateurs  and people who want to use templates to replace skill
Now there seems to be a campaign that Canva can write your social media posts for you.

As the Editor of a non-fiction magazine we can't afford to have any suggestion of AI words or images. Perhaps you don't need that sort of integrity in your work?

Adobe also offers a lot of AI tools: why is it OK for Adobe and not OK for Canva?

As an organization that does strictly non-fiction, we can't be associated in any way with tools that generate fake/false images, words or video. This has killed any thought of our team moving to Canva Studio.