• akakunai@lemmy.ca
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    4 months ago

    To be fair, this is a better comparison than I expected. There’s some good info here but it’s combined with the typical non-commital AI answer of “idrk both are good.”

    It says GIMP is for basic to intermediate photo editing. I think this downplays the power of GIMP. If you’re proficient enough with GIMP, you can definitely do advanced editing (esp. with plugins). It also is written to imply that Photoshop is for the pros and people who need to do advanced things, which would probably mislead people new to editing and needing only “basic to intermediate photo editing” towards GIMP when Photoshop is suited well for them too and probably easier to learn. It doesn’t even mention options that would be better for newbies like Adobe Elements.

    For another example of what I mean when I say AI is probably not a great source for info like this, I asked GPT-3.5-Turbo “Which is better, MS Word 2003 or MS Word 2021?” It gave some decent info on the features that 2021 has that 2003 doesn’t, but then concludes:

    “Ultimately, the choice between the two versions depends on your specific requirements. If you need advanced features and collaboration tools, Word 2021 is the way to go.”

    Another BS non-answer that a layman will read as “Word 2003 is best for me because I don’t need ‘advanced features and collaboration tools.’” Of course Word 2021 is better.