permission to use AI assistant

[Quirk]

Tried to access AI assistant and was greeted with the "Oh no....You do not have the necessary permissions (sic) to use the AI Assistant. Contact your system administrator for more information." How does one gain the required "permissions"? Ironically this is the type of question one would normally pose to the AI assistant.

[Bricklyne Clarence]

There's a more robust discussion elsewhere on the forum on how Graphisoft could have, and probably should have better approached this whole "AI" intergration with archicad and architectural tools and design workflow - with even a list of other less known and more well known AI tools and solutions that had already began delving into AI and developing architecture-focused AI solutions. At least better than Graphisoft are doing so now.

Most recently we've seen the guys who developed the really amazing and popular Finch discuss how they're now looking at developing an add-on for Archicad as well - which would be really great and useful as an AI solution that could work alongside archicad specifcally focused on design (they already have a plugin developed for Revit.), And stuff like that will fly under the radar because of how GS like to approach and do things.

Now they're on project Aurora, which for me is just a Johnny-come-lately late-comer attempt to not get left behind with the like sof Autodesk's Forma, but ....again....this approach whereby you lock out majority of your users in the development of the tool rather than widen the scope is just a recipe for failure and poor uptake when they eventually release it.

Contrast how they're doing that with how McNeel and Rutten developed Grasshopper in Rhino.

It's night and day.

And yet now Grasshopper is probably the most powerful and most well-known visual algorithmic designer in the market.

[March_ Bruce]

Indeed I read AI does use resources (environmentally challenging) and yet is SSA (for perpetural licensees) a subscription with expectations of full functionality, upgrades and support for the duration of a subscription term ?

Additionally would allowing use offer SSA customers a better sense of the value of it moving forward when SSA is no longer offered ?

Would the licensing model revert if the entire existing customer base chose to stay with the persistent model of what has claimed to be 'software designed by architects for architects' vs moving to subscription only ?

NEM.DE appears to be down over 30% in less than 4 months since peaking on August 11th, 2025...

 

[Roman-PS]

You may have a look here too:

https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/AI-Solutions/AI-Assistant-does-not-work/td-p/680210