🦉 Creative AI Digest - Issue #10

This is your favorite weekly newsletter about the intersection of AI and creativity. Only Creative AI Digest brings you a humorous and wise perspective from an artist who has a digital pet named, Artie Owl.

If you ask Albert Einstein stupid questions, you’ll get worthless answers. That’s where we are right now. It doesn’t matter how good AI is if you don’t know how to communicate your needs.

More on this in upcoming issues, but you see where I’m headed. Sure, AI will become ubiquitous. But people who know how to talk, write, and listen will be more successful than those who can’t. “Soft skills” are back. You heard it here first…

Suggestion from my friend Jim: I want to reiterate my approach. Sure, ChatGPT is creating the article or post summaries for you, but I’m the one choosing them and analyzing the information.

I read dozens of AI newsletters and follow hundreds of AI Twitter accounts, carefully curating only the best and most relevant items for creative professionals. I’m doing this through my lens of a self-employed creative who has been at this for decades.

So yeah, the drafting of this newsletter is “AI-assisted,” but I’m the creative director making the decisions. That’s what you’re here for and what I’ll continue to deliver that nobody else can. Not even ChatGPT… yet. LOL!

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✨ Personal Update

Ghosts! And it’s not even October!

There will be more on this serialized fiction project in future issues as I’m writing a craft book on it that will reveal my entire process (including the marketing).

But for now, enjoy a dark fantasy/horror story set in an abandoned alternate universe. No profanity, gore, or anything gross. Safe for all ages!

🛡️ Adobe Firefly: Your Indemnity Knight in Shining Armor Against Copyright Claims

Summary

• It seems that the world of AI-generated art is caught in a tangled web of legal kerfuffle. Fear not, Adobe is swooping in like a superhero with an indemnity clause to ease the nerves of its enterprise customers.

• Adobe's strategy is to lean into the uncertainty. They've trained their AI, Firefly, on their own Adobe Stock images, openly licensed content, and good ol' public domain content where copyright's already taken its last breath.

• Adobe essentially has your back, promising to shield you from any third-party IP claims tied to Firefly-generated works.

My Take

Adobe’s recent actions indicate an unwavering belief in an ethical AI future. By shouldering potential copyright claims related to their AI-powered Firefly tool, they are championing the confluence of technology, creativity, and corporate responsibility.

But if you own stock in a stock image site, SELL! As Firefly takes off, demand for traditional stock images might shrink, pushing this once-thriving market to adapt or risk fading into obscurity.

🚀 Redefining the Sound Barrier: The Dawn of AI's Audio Age with Voice Library

Summary

• Welcome to the Voice Library, the latest innovation to hit the auditory scene. It's a groundbreaking digital playground where voices of all ages, genders, and accents come out to play, built by their proprietary Voice Design tool.

• Once you've cooked up a captivating voice in Voice Design, you can set it free for others to use. It’s perfect for audiobook narration, video game design, or adding that special touch to your content.

• Right now, you can sort through the voices by popularity or trending status. But the future promises even more exciting features, like labels for specific use-cases, language-specific accents, and upvoting.

My Take

Am I the only one who remembers the voice of Charlie Brown’s teacher? I don’t think that one is in the Voice Library.

Voice Library brings an infinite collection of synthetic voices to creators. It's a diverse, multilingual playground, opening new realms of possibilities for translation.

However, the waters of copyright and IP ownership are getting murky. Who “owns” a synthetic voice?

🎯 Prompts

🎓 Want to learn how to direct ChatGPT in your writing projects? Check out this great course from PromptHero 👇

🎓 Want to learn how to guide AI when generating images and video? Check out this great course from PromptHero 👇

🕸️ Caught in the Web: The Tug of War Between AI and Human-Generated Content

Summary

• The increasing capabilities of AI to generate content are changing the landscape of the internet, often leading to a degradation in the quality of information. As AI-generated content becomes more prevalent, concerns are growing about the erosion of unique, human-generated content.

• Google's potential shift from its traditional "10 blue links" to AI-generated summaries could have significant impacts on web traffic and, by extension, the entire internet economy.

• AI is precipitating a significant transformation of the web. While there may be potential benefits, there's also the risk of it becoming a mass producer of low-quality or misleading information.

My Take

TLDR: We really don’t know. Anyone who says they do is a liar.

In fact, we probably won’t know the impact of AI during our lifetimes. Forgive me for going a bit AI doomer here, but there are valid concerns about AI-generated content being fed back into the machine.

Thoughtful oversight and regulation might be a possible solution, but not in an open system. Do we really think China or Russia is going to come to the table of an international AI regulatory commission? I don’t think so.

Something to think about regarding misinformation: blockchain. I’m not as bullish on NFTs as I used to be, but the underlying technology might be a way for us to authenticate content creators.

Or not. What the hell do I know?

🚀 From Zero to Hero: Transform Your AI Chats with Prompt Pro Tips

Struggling with AI communication? Lucas Pimentel, a seasoned "prompt junkie," is your guide to effective ChatGPT prompting!

This 7-step tutorial is no ordinary guide; it's your ticket to transforming your AI interaction from mundane to riveting, turning ChatGPT from a novelty toy into a business power-tool.

Check it out! 👇

🎬 AniMagic - Drawings to Animations

Animagic does one thing, and one thing only.

From the site: “Turn your drawings into fun animations in seconds.”

Check it out! 👇

⭐ AI Superstar - Mo Gawdat

Mohammad "Mo" Gawdat is an Egyptian entrepreneur and writer. He is the former chief business officer for Google X and I think he has the single-best approach to generative AI.

In a wide-ranging conversation with Peter Diamandis about the dangers of AI, Mo shares his wise perspective.

A few highlights:

• 39:57 - Writing Books With GPT

• 1:21:00 - Being playful with AI

• 1:34:50 - Being “good parents” to AI

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I use AI tools to create this newsletter, including but not limited to ChatGPT, Midjourney, and DALLE-2. My wife thinks my I is A, but that’s another story.

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