Fan Fiction and Commercialization + Introduction to Brave Search API

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Exploring the concept of fan fiction and its commercialization, including examples like 50 Shades of Grey and monetization platforms like Wattpad. Also discussing the allowance of non-commercial fan-made content based on popular franchises like Star Wars.

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Today’s show:

Sunny Madra joins Jason to demo Figma FigJam (2:08), a product that generates images from real-time drawing (31:05), and more while discussing the implications of IP theft writ large.

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(0:00) Sunny Madra joins Jason

(2:08) Sunny demos Figma’s FigJam

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(10:40) Figma FigJam demo continued

(16:02) Jason shares his AI generated images and discusses how companies navigate copyright issues

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(26:12) Feedback and thoughts for FigJam

(31:05) Sunny demos Fal, an AI that gives generated images from real time drawing

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(41:49) Sunny demos the Real-Time Latent Consistency Model

(47:01) Sunny demos Alibaba’s Animate Anyone