This week: EU tech regulation, GenAI, and Figma
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🎨 Figma’s new Slides app focuses on design, fun, and (oh, yeah!) AI
Config is always exciting for designers, and this year's conference did not disappoint. It's great to see Figma both expanding its offerings into Figma Slides and staying true to what makes it a staple for more than 70% of designers. The integration of AI will be a critical factor to watch, especially as Figma aims to prove that 'creativity is the new productivity.'
– Abhimanyu Sirothia , Design Director at Designit
📲 EU cancels vote on child sexual abuse law amid encryption concerns
The EU’s proposed ‘chat control law’, which was cancelled late last week, was a band-aid solution that attempted (and failed) to address the larger problem of preventing CSAM (child sexual abuse material). As tech and AI regulations increase, situations like these underscore the need for better tech literacy in lawmaking. Without it comes the risk of laws that fail to solve the problem, or worse, infringe on citizens' privacy.
– Pardis Shafafi , Global Responsible Business Lead at Designit
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✨ This week in GenAI
Our teams continuously observe the accelerated evolution of human-machine interaction triggered by the explosion of GenAI. Here are two articles worth your time this week:
Amelia Wattenberger , Principal Research Engineer at GitHub, shares her thoughts about chatbots' limitations and some hints about the much-required evolution of how we interact with GenAI.
The Elicit team explains how they're defining the interface for something they call living documents: pieces of complex information that grow and evolve as users interact with them.
– Miguel Sabel Pereira , Global Director of Strategy and Sustainability at Designit
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