PART 3 - The Changing Landscape for Creators

Well... this was originally one email inspired by AI tools Devani was sharing and experimenting with. Then it morphed into 4 parts, and now it is 5 parts! I reduced yesterday's in half so that it wouldn't be so long.

So here we go!

AI by Creators for Creators

After yesterday’s AI written Valentine’s poem, this analogy comes to mind: 

If you’ve ever given a Hallmark greeting card… that is basically the same thing as presenting an AI poem.

While I didn’t write that poem, I shared it because it expressed what I felt. I created the prompt (symbolic of the sentiment), which generated the poem. Same as the greeting cards... we search for a card that matches our feelings toward the recipient.

And everyone accepts greeting cards and recognizes them as representative of the sentiments of the giver.

Most of my life I’ve given handmade cards. Even if I used art by others, the words were mine.

My mother always gave purchased greeting cards, and yet I know that she spent time searching for the perfect card to express her feelings. I also knew that she didn’t think she could write it as well, though I know better. 

We found a rare few pages of her writing in her last months. But that was the story she told herself, so she used the beta version of AI by way of Hallmark cards (and the like), which later became digital greeting cards as well.

So those cards are akin to sending an AI poem. There’s basically no difference.

AI WAS CREATED BY CREATORS

As I reflected on this “brave new world” of creativity that could feel threatening, I realized that AI was created by creators for creators… and to help make creators out of those who don’t even feel creative. 

Like the greeting cards… it may help us to give someone a sentiment that was written more eloquently than we may feel we can do.

For those technological creators, AI is their art, their craft. And if one creator creates AI that can proliferate word art or visual art, or other skills… that tool, and all subsequent creations spawned, still originated from the mind and efforts of a creator!

CREATIONS PROLIFERATED:

We’re familiar with how we as creators can multipurpose and repurpose our art and ideas. And how a potter can create a lovely figurine that she then learns to mass produce and sell worldwide versus just one at a time from a local art shop, like Susan Lordi of Willow Tree . 

Or the artist who makes prints of his/her art and is able to sell hundreds or thousands instead of just one painting at a time, like Eeva Nikunen. And writers like James Patterson, author entrepreneur of a book empire, who created an entire team of writers putting out books under his name, based on his ideas and outlines.

These creators are using electronic tools to expand their ability and capacity to create, and that is simply creative intelligence in motion.

DISRUPTION FOR RE-CREATION:

There are few industries today that will escape disruption from this new technological age. We are in the middle of the quaking and that will continue. 

Creators are now being disrupted as taxis were by Uber (2009) and Lyft (2012), or the way that Blockbuster (1985-2014), was by NetFlix (1997) , and now with so many other contenders in the online streaming space.

There is no indication that these disruptions will end. Rather, they will continue and increase over this next decade, and in particular, these next few years.

You’re sure to be hearing of this everywhere online. So this isn’t news per se, but it is an important conversation to have amongst fellow creators toward hearing others thoughts and perspectives.

It may also be orienting for us to reflect on some of the many things the appearing threat of AI might remind us of from the past 20-150 years. We are in an accelerated projection now to be sure, however, change has ever been the way of the future.

We’re probably all familiar with the Kodak story, and now we all regularly take digital photos. We  know of the Blockbuster story as we stream regularly through our favorite platforms. Taxi companies resisted Uber. But the world chose differently.

Now, as creators, we have the opportunity to embrace learning the new and to see how we can incorporate it into our special creative flare. And… we have the choice to continue in the joy of creating manually.

May we embrace doing both… creating and co-creating!

Transformation through creation.

☀️🌙 ⭐️

~ LeAura

The day is the way.

❤️🙏🏻🌹