Digital Artists
Canva Trained an Image Model on Its Own Templates — and Unlike Most, It Can Say Who Got Paid
Canva released Craft, its first in-house image generation model, on 22 October. The technically interesting part is a two-stage design: it plans spatial relationships, scale, hierarchy and text placement before generating anything, which is why the text comes out legible. The more unusual part is that Canva has an actual answer to where the training data came from — an opt-in contributor programme with a payment structure attached.