AI and the Creator Economy with Karen X Cheng

Published: Nov. 9, 2022, 11 a.m.

b'Generative AI tools like DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion have taken the world by storm in recent months, wowing the masses with their uncanny ability to produce images via text prompts. \\n\\nIn this interview, we\\u2019ll chat with Karen Cheng about how she\\u2019s leveraged these tools among others, with a focus on how this new paradigm is reshaping the creator landscape. You\\u2019ll get to hear the behind the scenes of many of her viral works, including a video of her becoming a lawnmower, her AI-generated Cosmo magazine cover, her DALL-E fashion show, her transforming iconic art into 3D museums to explore, and much, much more. By the end of this episode, listeners should have a better understanding of the new tools at their fingertips (literally!), how AI can indeed enhance the creative process, and the second-order effects of these innovations, like how creators are paid.\\n\\nSince we\\u2019re just at the beginning of the AI era, this is just the beginning of our coverage as well.'