Are You Going to Be Able to Tell?

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I think you'll probably get a distribution of people. Some people will be like, Oh, I want the absolute best stuff. Don't care if it's human or AI. Like, why does that matter? And then there will be people who'd be like, No, I only buy things from other humans because I value the human experience. You actually see something similar with almost all products where some people are fine to buy the mass commoditized stuff that's produced in China and that you can get on Amazon directly to your doorstep. Other people are like, Hell no, I would never do that. I'm actually willing to not only just buy that stuff, but to buy it at

For years, people thought that artificial intelligence would wipe out repetitive tasks, but leave the creatives untouched. But recent developments have left many people surprised and taken the creative world by storm.

Tools like DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion gave anyone with a keyboard and a wifi connection the ability to spin up images from text prompts, far earlier and higher quality than many imagined.

So what comes next for the artists... the writers... the musicians...? No one knows for sure, but in this episode Cal and Steph discuss the exciting new world of generative AI. They discuss what it is (and isn't), the tools they've played with, how culture and trust are shifting, who "wins" in this new world, and what they think might be on the horizon.