It's interesting that people don't realize that the 'AI' (actually Artificial Narrow Intelligence) is just scouring the internet for examples of images that people have created and attempting to 'fit' them into a set of constraints.  

At some point use of ANI could cause a 'dead end' in its ability to be 'creative' as it will have run out of human created content to search and instead will be using its own creations.  This could lead to everything being generated by ANI to be the same.   

Why is this gulp? Is it not fairly well known that early ZHA used copiers to create glitch schemes?

basically just admitting that they don't care for concept-based design and only pursue stylized form making....oh, and of course the ability to cut down on initial design labor costs.  this shit is going to turn me into a luddite.

I used to do that shit manually.  At my old job, the "director of design" would have me and the rest of the staff scour the web for photos of other architects' projects for them to copy.   We literally never produced anything that somebody hadn't done before.

I think Patrick Schumacher IS an AI

Hey Rick, can you please do a lengthy analysis on the legality of plan stamping for AI.   Thanks ;)

An egotistical architect reigns, Whose creativity now wanes, His designs seem to lack heart, So he relies on AI to do his part.

The firm he owns pays a slave's wage, The working conditions are a cage, But his ego won't let him see, The damage done by his own decree.

He thinks he's a master of the trade, But it's the AI that's getting him paid, For the originality he lacks, Is made up by the code that's on his racks.

But what will happen when the machine, Produces a design that's unforeseen, Will he take credit or step aside, And let the AI take the ride?

Perhaps it's time for him to learn, That true creativity comes from the burn, Of passion, heart, and intuition too, Not just relying on code to see him through.

in its current form AI is not competing for creative control of design. Its the same as sketching and an ideation tool. For an office with a direction like ZHA it makes sense.

Being self-referential is a hallmark of a lot of offices, from steven holl to tadao ando to BIG. Creativity is often a matter of the mashup of the familiar with unfamiliar. Its what we do as architects all the time. AI seems to be doing that part for us, allowing us to get slightly further out of our heads than normal. Notice he is not saying anything more than that. Its part of the mix. Relatively healthy tbh. Less healthy would be the partner who says they only build their ideas and ignore all other input.

Doesnt mean AI is not dangerous, but this aspect so far is one of the upsides

The AI thing ZHA kind of own it. if Zaha was alive I'm sure she would have some things to say about prompts 'in her style'. 

On a similar subject there are lots of people on instagram calling for Olafur Elliasson and Tate modern to bring back The Weather Project so they can take photos of themselves and ruin the experience.

I suppose if the current ZHA is doing their best to emulate/execute the "house style" standards set by Hadid, then a blackbox AI could do a comparable pre-concept job by studying the millions of ZHA images online.

@matsys design (Andrew Kudless) is doing pretty cool things with AI, suggesting a sketchbook approach that feeds models and renders through the text-based systems, not just scraping the internet. For example, starting a sketch with a Zbuffer layer from rhino allows pursuit of materials and forms without losing control of all parameters (sounds goofy to my ears as I write it, but check out the IG images for an idea of what that means). It's a lot like parametric design. Little wonder ZHA would pick that up. If they are sophisticated users they are likely to get sophisticated results. The training set decides the outcome and it never needs to be just images online.

Does AI draw sections? 

Never go full AI.