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HBR IdeaCast

How Generative AI Changes Creativity

HBR IdeaCast

Harvard Business Review

Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Communication, Marketing, Business, Business/management, Management, Business/marketing, Business/entrepreneurship, Innovation, Hbr, Strategy, Economics, Finance, Teams, Harvard

4.41.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

From prehistoric cave paintings to an inventor’s Eureka moment, creativity has always been described as a particularly human trait. But something strange can happen with generative artificial intelligence. Your ideas can take shape far faster. You also get ideas that you might never have imagined on your own. So, who is the creator here? What is creative work in the era of generative AI? What is innovation in this emerging world? In this episode, How Generative AI Changes Creativity, Adi Ignatius speaks with video artist and consultant Don Allen Stevenson III about how generative AI is disrupting creative work and the creative industry. Then Ignatius speaks to two innovation researchers, Jacqueline Ng Lane and David De Cremer, about changes to the creative process within organizations. Lane is a professor at Harvard Business School. De Cremer is a professor at the National University of Singapore Business School and a coauthor of the HBR article “How Generative AI Could Disrupt Creative Work.” How Generative AI Changes Everything is a special series from HBR IdeaCast. Each week, HBR editor in chief Adi Ignatius and HBR editor Amy Bernstein host conversations with experts and business leaders about the impact of generative AI on productivity, creativity and innovation, organizational culture, and strategy. The episodes publish in the IdeaCast feed each Thursday in May, after the regular Tuesday episode. And for more on ethics in the age of AI, check out HBR’s Big Idea on implementing the new technology responsibly.

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0:00.0

Don, you are an artist based in Los Angeles.

0:03.0

I'd love to hear you talk about that moment

0:05.2

that you realized that, okay, wow,

0:07.6

this generative AI is doing incredible things.

0:10.5

And to what extent did you at least initially feel

0:13.8

that existential dread?

0:15.8

Yeah, so I mean, it really kicked in pretty fast.

0:19.5

I would say within the first couple of hours

0:22.0

of playing with these tools,

0:23.6

it started to sink in that this was gonna fundamentally

0:25.7

change what it meant for the value of my own work.

0:29.0

In the past, I made a lot of money off of kind of

0:31.3

how much time something used to take me,

0:33.6

whether that's an augmented reality filter for a client,

0:36.8

a commissioned art piece, a 3D model, a 3D sculpture,

0:40.7

a video edit, an animation.

0:43.2

All these things used to take a lot of time.

0:45.6

So if it took a week, I might be able to charge more.

0:48.9

And if it took a day, I would probably charge less.

0:52.0

So when I started playing with the earliest text

0:54.9

to image editor generative AI tools,

0:57.8

I was realizing that the iterations of ideas

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