Field had just complained about getting slide decks made by AI that the sender may not even have read. He describes Figma's internal disclosure rule as one way to keep trust, and adds that doing work with your own hands is another.
…actually doing something that is breaking through and it's unique. And I do think that will be rewarded by the market. Everyone's going to see it. I think it's even rewarded by the attention market of organizations. I'm already hearing from so many, like, oh, I got another deck made by AI today.
Totally.
And I don't even know if the person who made it, I don't know if they read it. Do they even know it's in their deck? And at Figma, we actually made it so that. It was just a simple thing, but we said, hey, if you are using AI in your writing of any kind, just put at the top, written with AI. Very simple, very easy to follow. And, you know, people made jokes about it internally, but people do it. And it makes it so that we can all trust that when we see something, we know that it's been cared for enough that it's worth your time to process. And I think that we're going to see some bifurcation here around trust. And one way to get trust is to do something with your hands. The other point that's important is if you have a vision or if you have a point of view in your head of how something should be designed or look aesthetically or from an experiential standpoint, you're, I think it's great to start with building with AI. It gives you something to get past the blank page, blank canvas problem. You can then react to it and say, here are all the things I don't like. I'm going to go fix these things. I'm going to change them up. Because it's really helpful to have a back and forth. But if you don't, if you…
model fit by it, yeah.
Yeah. And so you're not going to get exactly what you want. Now, if you're able to do both, and that's what we're trying to enable in Figma, make code of material on the canvas, make it so that you can go start by building. You can build to think if you like. But also, when you want to think and…
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