In this humorous and insightful column, yacht designer Bill Prince explores whether AI could replace human creativity in yacht design. While AI tools like Grok3 can generate realistic images quickly, they struggle with fundamentals like scale, style, and naval regulations. Prince shares his experiments with AI-generated yacht imagery, which often yielded bizarre and impractical results. Despite AI’s rapid progress, he concludes that true yacht design still requires human expertise—at least for now.
