AI and the Creator Economy with Karen X Cheng

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🗓️ 9 November 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

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. In this interview, we’ll chat with Karen Cheng about how she’s leveraged these tools among others, with a focus on how this new paradigm is reshaping the creator landscape. You’ll 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. Since we’re just at the beginning of the AI era, this is just the beginning of our coverage as well.

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0:00.0	It's kind of interesting that for most of history,
0:03.2	I feel like humans have prayed to God, you know,
0:07.1	but now I see that like content creators,
0:10.2	we pray to the algorithm. Hey everyone, welcome to the latest episode of the A6cency
0:18.0	podcast.
0:19.0	This is your host, Steph Smith.
0:20.0	In today's episode, I'm thrilled to bring on Karen Chang.
0:24.0	Karen has been a creator for a long time, but she specifically has a knack for integrating technology
0:29.2	into her creations. And you can only imagine with the rise of some of these AI tools like Dali, mid-journing, and
0:35.3	stable diffusion, what she's been able to achieve.
0:38.8	Now if you missed AI Summer and its impact on creators, you might have been sleeping under rock but you're not
0:44.1	too late it's truly just the beginning in fact I interviewed Karen back in
0:48.0	September and with every week there was something that popped up where I thought
0:51.8	man I wish I could have asked her about this.
0:54.0	And yet still in this interview, we cover a lot of ground.
0:57.5	We'll chat with Karen about how she originally found her niche,
1:00.3	how she manages to grow her social following with a nod towards being additive instead of reductive.
1:05.2	You'll also get to hear the behind the scenes of her many viral works, including a video of her becoming a lawnmower.
1:11.2	Yes, truly a lawnmower, her AI generated Cosmo magazine cover, the first ever,
1:16.8	her Dolly fashion show, her transforming iconic art into 3D museums that people can explore and much, much more.
1:24.6	And by the end of this episode, I think the audience will come away with some really key things,
1:28.9	including an understanding of the new tools that are available that are literally at our fingertips, how AI can indeed
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