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Or, “people who think they can express themselves in a medium without actually working in that medium” in the words of Ted Chiang.

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/why-ai-i...

Music producers have been doing it with sample-based music spanning hundreds of genres since the 80s. So yes, you can.

The Gen AI company they just acquired seems to be making their own model that, amongst other things, can generate coherent and heavily stylized text. For a platform that makes logos, branding, marketing material etc that seems like a natural fit.

Creating elements like that even with Canva's existing tools would generally require a graphic designer or someone with that skillset, or even worse - an agency. All of those options can be prohibitively expensive relative to the benefit they provide.

Yep I use it quite a bit as well as Buffer's AI assistant to help me rewrite texts, or at least give me interesting synonyms. It's probably the only venue where I can say "maybe AI will help people instead of ruining their jobs"

Casuals who just want the end result

I am not a "casual." I am a human being.

Nah. Dirty causal.