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AI & AI Art With Craig Blackmoore | The Christian Reeve Podcast #191 · The Christian Reeve Podcast

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  Hello and welcome to another episode of the Christian Reef
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  podcast, the first episode of 2023.
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  So happy New Year to everybody, today's guess we're starting out
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  with a bang, he's an artist futurist, a creative consultant,
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  animated Euler, and computer scientist, that all the way from
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  Detroit. Michigan.
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  Welcome to the show. Craig Blackboard.
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  How you doing? I'm great, I'm great.
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  How are you? I'm excited.
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  I look at it life. I just yeah, as I was just
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  saying to you off camera, like We were me and my audience were
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  getting really excited about this.
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  All over Tick-Tock right now and everywhere that I look there's
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  just everyone is obsessing over AI art and what we'll get, we'll
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  get into you and and everything in a second.
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  But I just wanted to kind of get your initial thoughts on that.
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  Like, what do you make of this kind of just Obsession?
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  Everyone seems to have with a IR right now.
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  I think it's awesome. I mean, it's technology that's
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  been Out for a minute. But is just now reaching the
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  masses like it is and it's great to see what people are doing
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  with it. So roughly, how long has it been
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  something that's been toward her or how long, how long is it is?
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  Is it existed for? Well, I remember like deep dream
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  was maybe like two thousand fourteen or fifteen that dream
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  algorithm from Google which is I don't know if you remember We're
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  seeing people doing like generative art of like these
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  weird, psychedelic images where everything looks like dogs or
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  it's like made from dogs are made from worms or something.
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  Like it was just this little tool that you could use to
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  generate, you know, strange images by training, the machine
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  learning algorithm on like a stock images.
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  Basically, images of dogs, or flowers, or whatever people were
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  generate like turning their Pictures into pictures of a
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  bunch of weird-looking dog things.
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  And yeah, I think right there. What, you just touched on is
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  something key. That's changed in the last close
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  to 10 years, machine learning. Obviously, the ability to track
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  and learn and grow with artificial intelligence.
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  And, you know, you like it, it's kind of crazy.
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  Like, how much technology has shifted around us in such a big
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  way to be to the point that we've reached now, we're a AI
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  art is a thing. I mean I suppose it was always
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  inevitable. But now it's like you're seeing
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  it everywhere and a lot of what I'm seeing online is kind of
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  freaky because it's like I give you a really good example,
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  right? So I'm seeing a lot of Trends
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  online right now where it will be like, let's let's imagine a
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  sci-fi horror type scenario. Give me stills of that in a
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  movie setting with the theme of like Wes Anderson or something.
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  You say you put it all together and it's very convincing.
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  It's like a like a regular artist has drawn.
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  And obviously, I understand you have to program it in such a way
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  and 10 but it is still just a computer creating those images.
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  Yeah, yeah. I've been seeing those, two of
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  those are actually. Those are some of my favorite
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  things is see because it's been a couple of times that it caught
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  me off guard and I thought I was looking at something real, and
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  right? Like, wait a sec like now, this
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  never happened. This isn't a real thing.
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  Or I've been seeing people sharing Photographs of, like
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  people at raves in the 90s or something really.
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  It's not a real thing, but it looks just like a real
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  photograph taken in the 90s. And honestly, that's what's
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  creepy to me about AI, just like deep fakes, deep fakes, I've
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  been around for a while to and you know, that's, that's a type
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  of AI to get that to match up perfectly.
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  And, and I've when, when I saw that, I was like, oh man, weird.
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  Hey, you know, let's go. You don't know what's real and
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  what's not. Now we're about to get
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  live-action. Fakeness let's get us a like
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  I've seen quite a lot of stuff with deep fake technology which
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  is concerning. I do you think that that could
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  become a problem moving forward? I will your thoughts on that I
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  definitely think. So there's times I'm looking at
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  things on the news or people talking like politicians and I'm
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  like is this really that person? You know like I Sometimes feel
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  like we're already being exposed to that technology through media
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  because when you look at the news, you're used to seeing like
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  you've been trained for generations to see a talking
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  head and they all sound the same and they all say the same thing.
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  So if we were to switch a real one out for a fake one, who
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  would really notice, you know, they're so computerized already.
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  So I feel like a lot of what we're seeing met actually.
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  Or at least has the potential to be swapped with something
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  artificial seamlessly. Say this, much with video.
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  You can still just about tell here and there you know every
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  once in a while you could but you can still tell it's a deep
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  fake, right? So it's not quite 100% their
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  audio. However, oh my God, I remember I
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  saw something about a year or two back and it was just an AI
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  had put together like a speak to her like a just a random podcast
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  that Could feasibly have been done by like deroga it was Joe
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  Rogan's voice and it's at its to the it was him it really was
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  him, and it was freaky because it was all a.
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  I and the only way you could really distinguish between the
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  two would be like every now and again, there be something that
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  be a little bit off, maybe like the way a particular phrase was
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  used or, you know, the lack of that transition between topics
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  or something like that. But it was pretty much like 90%
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  of the way there. And I'm thinking, just with
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  regards to what you're saying about the news, like it's very
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  plausible. All the audio tapes and things
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  that we've heard on the news and other media is completely faked
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  maybe? Yeah.
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  Yeah. And you know, who would identify
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  it, you know, there's programs being created to detect AI or AI
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  articles or things like that. But I remember reading some
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  articles over, like the pandemic, you're really in the
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  pandemic, just reading some articles that were very short
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  and didn't really contain much information.
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  But there were, they were new. They were published almost daily
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  or a couple times daily and and, you know, I have a habit of
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  because, you know, of AI. Any time I read an article, I
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  like to click on the author of the article and see what other
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  kind of articles that authors written.
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  See if like, okay, this person focuses on this topic or this
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  person, kind of just writes whatever their toes are right
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  for the day and and sometimes, you could end up in a pretty
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  interesting space doing that. You see someone who's like,
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  Articles all over the Internet and none of their articles are
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  really that deep or really about anything.
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  And then you look at the picture and you're like, is this a real
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  person? Because, you know, it's really
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  easy to generate fake faces and, you know, I have no proof that a
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  lot of news articles are being written by AI, but I feel like
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  we've been getting generated articles for a minute.
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  There was a guy that I met recently and when I told him
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  that you were going to be on my show and what would be talking
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  about? He got really excited.
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  He's like, you have to ask him this that, and the other and
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  believe me, I will. But one thing that he showed me,
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  because he was showing me the way I are works and all of these
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  different things. But one thing that he showed me
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  with regards to what we're talking about is some sort of
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  software that would write a topic for you.
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  So you'd put in whatever the article topic was, what you
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  wanted to achieve with it. How many words it would be
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  excetera you wait, like five ten minutes, and it wrote a full-on
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  fucking article. And it was, and it was really
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  convincing, and it posed questions that you would think
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  would be tricky for a computer to be able to pose or, you know,
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  it even had its own kind of style of writing and stuff.
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  Like there were a few things missing here and there but it's
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  the sort of thing where you could touch that up.
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  Like you could just mass-produce.
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  These edit them a little bit and then put them out and they'd be
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  fine like I come from a marketing background, right?
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  And one thing that's big, Begin marketing is guest posting.
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  So for those who don't know, basically in marketing you
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  always want to pay to get links in articles and a way to do that
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  is to just make up some little shitty article. 500 Words, you
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  probably just going to copy from another website anyway and then
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  you insert the link that you paid for and you post it.
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  So the theory is that you would post on another person's website
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  that has a better website to your own that makes sense within
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  your industry. Re you'd pay to have a link back
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  to your website within that article and then Bang.
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  You're linked right, anyway. Companies, a post that choose to
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  do guest, posting our publishing, tons of these every
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  month. If you get a eye involved that
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  certainly reduces the workload significantly.
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  So you only you could spend editing could be like 5-10
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  minutes as opposed to having to write the Articles yourself and
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  edit them and put them out. So it's and then we're chat GPT,
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  which is capable of writing articles like in seconds.
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  He's it's it's interesting and the Futures looking really
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  interesting. There's a lot of tools that are
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  available right now that if you know about them, you can use
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  them to your advantage, to make a pretty penny, because soon,
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  you're going to have to pay to have access to these tools but
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  they'll be used on you all day every day.
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  I don't know whether to be excited or terrified.
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  I honestly don't wear in the middle there.
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  What one thing I remember light years ago when I was in this
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  marketing job, I knew that I would be out of a job within a
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  few months because of AI and it. It was the sort of thing that I
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  could see it before it was going to happen and you know I quit
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  before then and I have my reasons Etc.
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  But I was looking at what we were doing and where we be in
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  the next six to 12 months. And I was like, this is all
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  going to be AI because there's no point having a human do this
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  because it's so much quicker and more efficient to have a
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  computer, do it. And that's the thing like
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  bringing it back to a I I mean this is kind of the argument
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  with AI art is, is it really right to have artificial
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  intelligence involved in? I'm not like an artistic
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  Endeavor. I mean, you still, you still
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  have a human, you know, putting the inputs in and creating that
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  thing. But like it's still a computer
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  doing that as opposed to, you know a human and that makes me
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  wonder like is this the end of art as we know it is this the
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  death of our now I don't think so I do.
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  I it to me, it feels a lot like with, you know, EDM electronic
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  dance. Music and 2009 10 11, it was
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  still kind of taboo to have EDM performances at Rock clubs at
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  least around here. And I used to produce music and,
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  you know, I still produce music but I would produce my own music
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  and rap or sing or whatever. It would just be me on stage
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  with my little scent and laptop following bands.
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  You know, just metal bands, your whole bands before and after and
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  people would say, oh what, you know, that's not Not real music,
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  you're just pushing a button and you generate some music and I'm
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  like, well, no, that's that's not what happens at all.
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  But it was a lot of fight that I received a lot of pushback
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  because they thought that, that's how I made music.
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  They're like, oh, you just type in some stuff and you get little
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  loops and samples, and make music like that, and it's just
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  like, no, that's not what it is. But then after a couple years, a
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  lot of people who were in those bands, came to me saying like,
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  yeah, I started using FL Studio. I started using this and check
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  out my album and this and that. So I think it just takes more
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  exploration when it comes to Art.
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  Like AI art is not that easy to make.
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  If you want to make something good and unique, if you want to
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  make something generic then that's easy.
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  Type in a prompt, see what comes out and, you know, share it.
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  But if you actually have an idea of what you're trying to make
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  and you want it to be legible, To your standards, you got to do
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  a lot of tinkering, you got to do a lot of training, your own
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  models or blending custom models together to create a model that,
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  you know, is suitable to the style you're looking for.
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  It's a lot of, you know, a lot of technical work to it.
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  It's kind of like, glitch art, you know.
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  Like with glitch art running pixels sort script in Python to
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  get an effect that you can now. Now, just find on an app, you
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  couldn't? You used to not be able to find
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  those effects on apps. You would have to actually
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  program the effect in an IDE in order to get that type of look
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  on your image. Once again, one thing it makes
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  me wonder about is how we'll traditional Arts, because that's
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  what we'll have to call it traditional hard art or human
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  art. That's it.
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  That's the thing to think about it will now be called human art
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  as opposed to just start but anyway, How will Human Art
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  compared with AI art and vice versa?
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  Well, I feel like it's kind of like mass production, you know,
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  if you get something handmade you're paying a handmade Premium
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  versus getting something that comes off the assembly line.
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  So I see it as it's going to raise the value for human made
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  art. It is also going to allow
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  smaller creators, and smaller, art houses to create Bigger
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  Productions because like, I've directed a crew before, okay?
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  With With you know, five cameras microphone like everything.
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  You need lighting. I've been to school for video
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  and audio and it's a lot of work.
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  You know, your pre-production drawn, your storyboard getting
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  all your equipment together, renting equipment, getting your
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  crew hired. Making sure they're taken care
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  of on set. Making sure everyone shows up on
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  time. Oh man, it's a lot of work, but
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  when you have the ability to automate half of that, like your
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  story boarding or to have a machine edit, your Script or
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  three things or apply lighting and post or use AI to
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  automatically help your, your granite Graphics year your CG
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  computer generated people, images, and effects balance out
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  properly by using AI instead of actually, putting down markers
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  and doing everything, the hard way, that allows me to hire less
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  people to get my vision out there.
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  Like, I don't need As big of a budget to create something
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  because I actually can yell at my computer to do something and
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  then to do it, instead of me having to teach my computer how
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  to do something again. You know, you mentioned about
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  music before and one of the comments that I received a
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  Reddit, which just immediately connects to what you're saying
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  before. Is it reminds me of people who
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  used to say synthesizer, music and sample-based music wasn't
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  real music quote, it just bleep sucks.
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  And bloops, it lacks humanity and then this person said now
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  look where we are bringing it back to what we're talking
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  about. I feel like if we want a clue of
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  where the future lies with AI art and Human Art, Etc, you just
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  have to look at music industry and just see everything that's
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  happened at because people are still producing in the classic
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  ways. Like, for example, Foo Fighters,
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  when they made a record, I think back in 2017, they chose to do
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  it analog Style just you know, It's harder that way.
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  But they chose to do it that way because they just preferred it
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  that way they could have just done it, you know, like every
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  pretty much every other artist does these days, we'll through
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  computers, because it's quicker, more efficient etcetera.
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  But point being, you have the option and maybe in a more
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  positive perspective because I was there.
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  I'm trying to explore that of thin film negatives, or what
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  could go wrong. But in the more positive sphere,
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  maybe it will offer us more choice.
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  Yeah. More Choice.
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  It's it's just Evolution you know it's technology moving into
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  a new exciting placed finally because for the longest
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  innovation has simply been adding a pay wall or making
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  something harder to user making a menu.
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  Instead of being on the left side of the screen, it's on the
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  right side of the screen, you know?
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  Like that's we've been dealing with those kind of updates for a
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  long time now and finally, we have something new to the point
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  where you have backlash and Got Society splitting on like this
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  isn't real. This isn't it - finally wake up
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  and see something new see what happens with it.
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  You know if you're against AI then you can stay eyes.
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  Just going to make AI people more enthusiastic about what
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  they're doing and more creative, you know, like for example, I
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  noticed before with mid-journey like around when it first came
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  out, people were kind of just, you know, Making art on
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  mid-journey, you know, typing in prompts and then taking that art
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  and posting it and saying like, look what I made with
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  mid-journey. Okay.
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  Whereas interject for a second for those who don't know, what
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  can you explain a little bit about what mid-journey is
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  mid-journey is in a, a prompt based AI art generator that runs
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  through Discord. Okay.
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  So it's programmed into Discord and in you type in like imagine
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  and tell it what to imagine. And it generates the images and
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  if you pay for it, you have a little more flexibility in what
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  you're generating. So you have more options and you
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  control the parameters, a bit easier, that was wasn't the
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  first AI thing. I started tinkering with with
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  our, but Dolly to is another one that's similar to mid-journey
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  just type in something and it creates it and they both have
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  their own Styles made Journey has its own style.
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  A lie too has its own style and then they're stable diffusion,
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  which is like need a state because it allows people to
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  actually own it on their machine and not through the internet and
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  you can train your own models. You can adjust it Tinker it, do
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  whatever you want with it because it's yours.
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  It's on. Your machine is not stuck on the
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  server or you can run it virtually on a server or you can
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  create your own app or program that uses stable diffusion like
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  the lens that app that everyone's using to create the
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  cool. A profile pictures that's based
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  on stable. Diffusion.
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  And but yeah, like with mid-journey when it first came
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  out I saw a lot of people just generating art and then they
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  type in their favorite artist for the style and then they're
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  like boom, look what I made. It looks just like something
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  that a professional artist that actually exists made and and I
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  got kind of annoying. I was actually in the side of.
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  That's not good. You know you can't do that.
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  You're taking this person Style. But eventually, I was just like,
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  a, what can you do about it, you know, back in early 2012 or
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  whatever when I used to do little short animations and put
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  them on the internet. I used to have people commenting
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  on it. Like I made a music video with
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  this animation and I go look in there on YouTube with my Clips
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  in their stuff and at first I would get worked up about it but
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  what could I do? I put it on the internet.
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  That's just something you have to make peace with who you put
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  it on the internet. You're kind of giving it to the
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  public even if I don't want them to do anything with it, but, um,
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  you know, it's just another person who got inspired and they
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  took your heart. This begs a big question of
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  ownership with AI Arts, would you consider a IR to be a
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  public, Commons kind of scenario, or do you think, the
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  art it, the person programming it?
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  If it can you call that person an artist either.
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  That's another discussion. But the person programming that
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  are creating that are With that program.
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  Did they own? The art who owns the art?
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  Like what your thoughts on this? It's a gray area still but the
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  way I see it is if you made in copyright copyright your own AI
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  model your own custom model right?
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  Then you should own the art to that model but then you have
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  these custom models that are directly based off of specific
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  artists where that's you know that's if you yeah, that's
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  someone else. Is art style.
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  So it there's a lot of parameters to it where
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  intellectual property would come into question and like skins I
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  suppose, like so similar kind of thing.
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  Like, if you were going to pay to use someone's skin that
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  they've created. Yeah.
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  Yeah. I feel like actually the best
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  thing for artists who are against AI to do right now, like
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  popular artists would be to create their own AI model and
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  sell it sell licenses to it. Ahead of the game.
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  Someone's going to either snatch it from under your feet anyway,
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  or you can get there early and say hey, make art and my style
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  lease, my model, and boom. Now you've created a product
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  from your model you can copyright your model and boom.
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  There you go. You have rights to your AI model
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  but he's finding so many similarities to music a.
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  It's like when you you make like beats that you license and then
• 21:52
  rent out the like Brent beats. But it's a thing that people do
• 21:55
  it. I said you get the samples as
• 21:56
  well. Yeah.
• 21:57
  Same principle that anyone could use them in a multitude of
• 22:00
  different ways and I suppose this is kind of the same thing.
• 22:03
  Yeah, you know, sample packs, you tired of people, ripping
• 22:06
  your drums, and calling it their drum, then create the sample
• 22:10
  pack. And now everyone knows you have
• 22:12
  a sample pack out there and you know, and with music production
• 22:16
  you see it all the time. People are like, what kind of
• 22:18
  sample pack is this? And someone else that comment
• 22:21
  the answer, not even the original producer because people
• 22:23
  are familiar with it. So it would be the same.
• 22:26
  Thing with AI when you're like, oh, what kind of models did you
• 22:31
  use to generate this image? Someone else will comment.
• 22:34
  They use this model because I also have a license to that same
• 22:37
  model. And, you know, that's one way
• 22:41
  you could get ahead of the game on it.
• 22:45
  Another way is like a lot of these programs are updating to
• 22:48
  where you can't enter an artist's name for a style.
• 22:53
  I like that idea because you can Also just enter like you can say
• 22:58
  pop art but you don't have to say, you know, the name of like
• 23:02
  Warhol, I can do some art but I don't have to say in the style
• 23:05
  of Andy Warhol, I can you say in this style Papa City so you
• 23:09
  could kind of rip people off without ripping them off
• 23:11
  essential, right, right? Because functions can be
• 23:13
  copyright, you know? So so you just say the style
• 23:17
  name and pay it. If someone was famous enough to
• 23:21
  Define that entire era of style and oops, but But you know, you
• 23:29
  got to get creative with it nowadays because it's a
• 23:32
  different world. When you have everyone online
• 23:35
  versus just a few people on everyone's online now.
• 23:39
  So everyone's got access to whatever is on there.
• 23:43
  And not, everyone is going to want to pay for it or respect
• 23:47
  the rights. So you gotta just find your
• 23:50
  corner. Can you talk us through?
• 23:53
  What disco diffusion is Disco, diffusion is an AI generator
• 24:00
  programmed. That's the last time I used it
• 24:02
  was on Google collab in like the notebooks where I think it's
• 24:06
  called notebooks, but, um, but it's basically kind of like
• 24:11
  Sable diffusion but just a little more Bare Bones and
• 24:14
  allows you to animate frame by frame, or it allows you to use
• 24:19
  an AI to create frame by frame animation.
• 24:21
  Oceans from videos or you can also generate images on it.
• 24:27
  I haven't done too much in this go diffusion because it was a
• 24:31
  little confusing for me because I kept running out of vram in
• 24:37
  their virtual environment and I don't want to pay for it, but so
• 24:43
  I didn't do too much with that. But stable diffusion is where
• 24:47
  where I really don't mean deep because I was able to put it on
• 24:50
  my computer. Use my GPU and it didn't have
• 24:55
  any as many limitations at least.
• 24:57
  But I've seen some pretty cool art come out of disco diffusion.
• 25:01
  All right, fair enough. Yeah, I mean I got shown this by
• 25:06
  the person who showed me a sort of introduced me to a lot of
• 25:10
  this, that I knew you were coming on the show.
• 25:11
  I'd already done some research for this, and these people were
• 25:14
  asking me about my show, and I was like, all right, Ron, I just
• 25:17
  showed them my notes, that I know you got a lasting about
• 25:19
  this and this and this, as I had to kind of Sit down and do a bit
• 25:22
  of research and I like to kind of come in with a bit of
• 25:26
  research but also I like to be somewhat on knowing about it as
• 25:31
  well so that I can let my guests like kind of lead and I learn as
• 25:35
  well with the audience kind of thing.
• 25:36
  I like that but I do you do kind of have to have like a rough
• 25:39
  idea and it's it was amazing to see this in real-time happening
• 25:45
  because it is just so quick, you know, and obviously that the
• 25:48
  more information you give it the more detailed it's going to be
• 25:52
  That I asked it to show me a scene because I live in
• 25:57
  Manchester in the UK, right? And there's this famous image
• 26:01
  from a few years back that people like and so like a
• 26:03
  Renaissance painting. That's like a drunken night out
• 26:07
  in the Centre of Manchester and there's like pleased with
• 26:11
  someone and one person's on the floor.
• 26:13
  Like and then there's it's just all sorts of stuff going on in
• 26:16
  this image, right? And I asked it to try and
• 26:19
  recreate that and it kind of it showed like several images of
• 26:24
  police and drunk and disorderly acts, but didn't quite show that
• 26:29
  specifically. But it's understood the
• 26:32
  assignment in as much as you give it those basic things,
• 26:35
  like, police drunken Night Out Manchester like you put these
• 26:39
  things in there. It will recognize those elements
• 26:41
  and put together some degree of an idea.
• 26:46
  And I think like what you were saying before about how it can
• 26:48
  help with filmmaking stuff like that.
• 26:49
  Like, I totally agree that this Much potential there, especially
• 26:53
  if you're restricted to a budget.
• 26:55
  So I think for independent filmmakers, anyone that's just
• 26:58
  starting out, can get access to these programs, get it now.
• 27:02
  And you can start kind of generating ideas there and
• 27:05
  building your Concepts through that potentially.
• 27:07
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 27:08
  Get it while it's free. Yeah.
• 27:11
  Soon. It's not gonna be an uncle take
• 27:16
  advantage of it because it's here.
• 27:17
  It's an experimental phase and a lot of Technology.
• 27:21
  He is at his best point in my opinion, during the experimental
• 27:25
  phase because it's no restrictions, you know, they
• 27:29
  remove all those restrictions once they figure out what's
• 27:32
  wrong with it, you know, it's going to be pay wall.
• 27:34
  That's going to be copyright issues going to sign here in
• 27:37
  order to use that and you don't want that.
• 27:40
  So I see don't have Photoshop before it was on Creative Cloud
• 27:44
  because I can keep the file. You know, it's the same thing
• 27:48
  with AI if you can download something and host, Do it
• 27:52
  immediately. It's just so sad knowing that
• 27:55
  that's the Fate like we already know is seen it so that we know
• 27:59
  that's going to happen. Like I already know like
• 28:01
  licenses, you have to pay for licenses, probably got the
• 28:03
  papers subscriptions or whatever.
• 28:05
  Like I was talking to a friend the other day about.
• 28:09
  So I think Pro Tools the music making software and he said that
• 28:14
  it's now changed where you have to do subscription.
• 28:17
  So it's not even like you can just own it outright anymore.
• 28:19
  You have to pay a yearly subscription to use.
• 28:21
  This stuff and it's just a bit of pain in the ass to be honest
• 28:24
  and site. Yeah, Debbie and I get it but
• 28:26
  it's just, you know, and obviously they've released these
• 28:29
  updates. He's patches every once in a
• 28:31
  while that oh that'll be a thing.
• 28:33
  You have to pay for like those updates every once in a while.
• 28:36
  And it's yeah. Expensive for every Perpetual
• 28:41
  expenses, enjoy it while it lasts guys.
• 28:44
  All right, great. Exactly.
• 28:47
  Right. And, you know, and don't be so
• 28:49
  quick to reject it without It because it's really interesting,
• 28:53
  you know, like unstable diffusion.
• 28:57
  Your ability to take a photo and highlight, a certain aspect in
• 29:02
  paint a certain aspect of it and then just render some like say
• 29:06
  if I took a portrait of myself actual portrait of me just doing
• 29:10
  whatever and I wanted to put a machine or a robot next to me, I
• 29:14
  could go into stable, diffusion paint this area and then render
• 29:19
  a machine next to me. And it Won't affect the rest of
• 29:22
  the picture, you know? So those are really cool tools
• 29:26
  that you can use to like to recreate the painting that you
• 29:29
  were talking about and if they gave you a magician that were
• 29:32
  kind of scattered, you could use something like that to put it
• 29:36
  all together or to say. All right we need a cop right
• 29:39
  here. So let's paint the area and then
• 29:42
  put it there and you know it's really cool.
• 29:45
  It's useful, useful stuff. Especially when you need
• 29:48
  inspiration like over the pandemic, I do photography as
• 29:51
  well. And I usually have a lot of just
• 29:53
  random photo shoots and I use photographs from my photo shoots
• 29:57
  to create glitch art and and over the pandemic I didn't do
• 30:03
  shoots and do many shoots at also with a I was able to
• 30:08
  generate my models that don't exist.
• 30:11
  You know, then you'll never run into him, you don't know where
• 30:14
  they are because they're not real people and continue doing.
• 30:18
  Glitch art on work or people. People that don't have rights
• 30:23
  and don't exist and don't need to be paid or called, or
• 30:25
  scheduled or anything. Okay.
• 30:27
  To, I've got two questions, though.
• 30:31
  Firstly, what we start with the first question, what is glitch
• 30:34
  art? So, glitch art is the aesthetic
• 30:38
  of error like glorifying that aesthetic.
• 30:41
  So, it shows you anything from television screen with static to
• 30:48
  a broken iPhone screen too. Blue screen of death.
• 30:53
  Being the love of that error aesthetic and you know, things
• 31:01
  that I also think it's preserving A Relic that doesn't
• 31:05
  exist anymore because like, we all use LED screens for
• 31:09
  everything now. So you should never really get
• 31:12
  television static anymore. It doesn't really exist outside
• 31:15
  of the effect. So if you can generate
• 31:19
  television, static that It's art, you know, unless you buy an
• 31:24
  old TV, so how would you generate television static on
• 31:28
  LED screen? You can use code to do it.
• 31:31
  You can use filters effects or things like that, but it's an
• 31:34
  element of art. Now, it's a paint like a like
• 31:37
  painting painting with static or painting, with data moshing.
• 31:43
  Something that used to piss us all off.
• 31:45
  Especially if you have satellite television, the wind blows and
• 31:48
  now you're looking at the same glitched image for 30 minutes.
• 31:51
  I remember those days. Oh my God.
• 31:53
  All right, you know, I used to Annoy Us but now it has a
• 31:57
  nostalgic value and it's also creative.
• 32:01
  You can use it creatively. So, glitch, art is basically
• 32:05
  channeling all of these. These things that typically piss
• 32:10
  you off when you don't want it to happen and using it as a
• 32:13
  creative medium. And then I also see glitch art
• 32:16
  as when technology takes a mind of its own slightly.
• 32:20
  So, so if you tell the computer to shut down and instead it blue
• 32:25
  screens, it's kind of like, saying screw you, I'm gonna go
• 32:28
  crazy instead, you know, like it.
• 32:30
  You didn't control that moment but it did itself.
• 32:35
  So, with glitch art. I'm taking something that's
• 32:37
  perfectly fine, and I'm adding all these elements of error to
• 32:41
  it in a creative fashion, okay? Second question for you, just
• 32:46
  relate to what you said before, you said, okay, with this
• 32:50
  particular style of art, Enough to pay the likeness the person
• 32:53
  because they don't exist. Now what if the character models
• 32:58
  that you have? And this is a very real
• 33:00
  possibility happened to look like someone in real life.
• 33:05
  What then like where where what's can they sue you for
• 33:10
  that? I guess.
• 33:11
  It depends on how closely it resembles them.
• 33:14
  Right? Also the prompt.
• 33:16
  See now this is another thing if I if I type in a prompt and For
• 33:21
  example, if I type in a prop in my model comes out looking like
• 33:24
  Jennifer Lopez, okay? Okay.
• 33:26
  And I create this artwork and it's, I don't know.
• 33:29
  Let's say it's defensive. Okay, and JLo sees it and she's
• 33:32
  like, you're using my likeness and I say, no, I'm not check out
• 33:36
  the original prompt. I didn't use your name at all
• 33:39
  right, there you go. I just saved my ass, but if I
• 33:43
  did use the name in that prompt, then I could get in trouble for
• 33:46
  it. So I can foresee a future where
• 33:51
  They're required to be reserved kind of like when you do a photo
• 33:55
  shoot and you have to or if you do a nude photo shoot, you need
• 33:59
  to reserve keep the models ID on file in case someone's like hey,
• 34:04
  is that an underage model? No.
• 34:05
  See this is their ID so I can see something like that in the
• 34:09
  future. Where you might have to keep
• 34:11
  your prompts in a folder at this.
• 34:14
  Goes back to what we were saying before about.
• 34:15
  Like, if it kind of, if you end up in a scenario where it does
• 34:19
  look like I happen to look like a real life person and you're
• 34:24
  able to then be like, well, I didn't put it in the prompt so
• 34:26
  there's no accountability. That's a problem.
• 34:29
  If there's no accountability because then they could
• 34:32
  continuously put things in there, the resemble you or a
• 34:36
  similar to you or whatever. And there's nothing you can do
• 34:39
  about it and then they can put you in compromising, sort of
• 34:41
  positions. And you're just, what can you
• 34:43
  do? I mean we're, it's kind of like
• 34:46
  how it is. Anyway, you can hire a
• 34:47
  look-alike sand. You can hire impersonators, a
• 34:50
  fair enough draw. Characters of people and there's
• 34:53
  not really much they could do about it so it's just going to
• 34:57
  be something like that and we just got to get used to that
• 34:59
  future and you know like we watch movies where there's
• 35:03
  Cyborg doppelgangers. And we like Ah that's just a
• 35:06
  movie one day. It's not going to be a movie.
• 35:08
  It's gonna be something else. There's a reason why companies
• 35:11
  want you to use their apps for them to get your likeness in
• 35:16
  their machine learning algorithm, you know, they don't
• 35:18
  want your images, they say. Yeah, we delete your images.
• 35:21
  As in five days, no problem. But their machines, remember,
• 35:24
  everything about how you look. So there's a reason why that
• 35:29
  data is important right now. It is not to be used right now,
• 35:33
  but that's the data they want. Just like back when they wanted
• 35:36
  everyone's emails on social media, you know, now emails
• 35:39
  aren't that important. They want your phone number and
• 35:42
  phone numbers aren't going to be important, they're gonna want
• 35:44
  your retina. So yeah, that's that's the
• 35:50
  that's the thing with AI. They They want, that's important
• 35:52
  data. It's gold right now and nobody
• 35:55
  really knows why yet, but soon you will.
• 35:59
  Yeah. Do you think the with a i Arts?
• 36:05
  It will eventually eliminate the need for Artistry and expression
• 36:09
  from humans. No, no, not at all because AI
• 36:14
  art still in some cases. Lakhs.
• 36:19
  A lot of what traditional art, bring same with digital art to,
• 36:23
  you know, like some digital art, it looks awesome, it feels
• 36:27
  awesome. But you know, it's not like
• 36:30
  seeing a painting, a beautiful painting with with the texture
• 36:35
  of the oil or the acrylic paint creating Dimension to it or the
• 36:40
  actual markings, like, when I go to a gallery, like like the
• 36:44
  Detroit Institute of Arts, it's a big Gallery in Detroit, huge.
• 36:48
  They have a lot. Lot of historic paintings in
• 36:51
  there when I look at something by Save and Go and I see his
• 36:56
  signature in the corner, I'm like that guy signing this.
• 37:00
  You know, the guy who's not here anymore, he touched this
• 37:04
  painting. He like this is his he did that.
• 37:08
  So you can kind of imagine what what he may have been going
• 37:13
  through at the moment or you can see in The Strokes like this was
• 37:16
  a bad day, you can see how they're using the brush.
• 37:19
  Really here, you know, like there's a lot there, just like
• 37:23
  in archaeology when you find a relic from the past how they can
• 37:26
  look at something and determine so much like oh they were
• 37:28
  working with this metal and this time or you know there's a lot
• 37:32
  of information there when a person touches artwork versus
• 37:37
  digital. There's not much information in
• 37:40
  a digital artwork even a like digital or Ai.
• 37:43
  And that's something I used to struggle with being a digital
• 37:46
  artist. Is, I'd look at a painting and
• 37:48
  then Then I look at my artwork and I'm like, mine looks cool.
• 37:52
  But that was touched. That has someone's DNA under the
• 37:56
  levels of paint, you know, that that has some age on that,
• 38:00
  canvas finds a print, you know, it's cool.
• 38:03
  It's awesome. But well, you know, like when
• 38:06
  you see a giant painting was like, wow, a person painted
• 38:09
  something that huge I printed something that cool, right?
• 38:15
  But while it was another room that's person has In painting
• 38:19
  this one canvas for years so she I don't think AI is going to
• 38:25
  take that aspect away at all. If anything, it just makes the
• 38:29
  artistic it broadens, the artistic experience, you know,
• 38:33
  it allows you to create something, you know different.
• 38:38
  But yeah, there's still something different about
• 38:42
  physical traditional art that is unmatched by digital or a IR.
• 38:49
  So I don't think that's at risk. If anything is just going to get
• 38:53
  more valuable. Yeah, I agree with your point on
• 38:56
  that. I feel like it might get to the
• 38:59
  point as well. I mean like what?
• 39:00
  All right. Now anyway as always expensive
• 39:03
  and you see like ridiculous works of art guy fire, 10
• 39:06
  million. That's definitely going to be
• 39:08
  the case if there's like a mass influx of AI art and, you know,
• 39:12
  like especially If it becomes, I feel like maybe there might be a
• 39:17
  scenario where it becomes like more expensive and more
• 39:20
  difficult to become an artist. Like maybe the tools that you
• 39:23
  use to say, pain, draw, whatever, might become more
• 39:28
  expensive as a result and then maybe computer tools might be,
• 39:32
  maybe more inexpensive because, you know, it's cheaper to do it
• 39:37
  or it's free or whatever the case may be made on steroids.
• 39:40
  And yeah, I mean I could definitely see that happening.
• 39:45
  Because it's a giant expense to go from digital to physical you
• 39:50
  know like when I wanted to move into sculptures and I had to get
• 39:54
  a 3D printer, that's an investment.
• 39:56
  I had to buy the the resin for that printer.
• 39:59
  I gotta buy all the materials to process the prince when they're
• 40:03
  done and it's a gap in payment versus or in what I'm paying
• 40:08
  versus just creating something online and sharing it directly
• 40:12
  to Instagram. So if I To manifest something
• 40:16
  digital into the physical. I'm going to have to invest
• 40:19
  deeper into it. The better I wanted to translate
• 40:23
  physically so I can definitely see that happen and where
• 40:28
  quality physical materials might become more expensive but but
• 40:34
  like with jewelry, you know, a lot of people come to us for
• 40:37
  custom jewelry because they know what.
• 40:40
  When I say us, I mean me and my partner, we own a jewelry
• 40:42
  company. So a lot of people come to us
• 40:45
  Custom jewelry because we're making it for them.
• 40:49
  Whereas if they were to go to one of these commercial
• 40:51
  Jewelers, they don't know who made it, they don't know where
• 40:53
  the stones came from and it is nothing personal about it does.
• 40:58
  If it feels almost like a, I are they just showed up?
• 41:00
  It was there and now they have it.
• 41:03
  Whereas they can come to us and tell us what Stones they want
• 41:06
  how they want it to look and come back and see that idea
• 41:10
  manifested by the person. So I got Don't ask what's the
• 41:16
  craziest request you've ever had or the craziest customer
• 41:19
  interaction. You've had in the doors.
• 41:24
  Man it's I haven't really had any to crazy yet that none of
• 41:28
  that stuff and yeah, it's kind of random.
• 41:31
  Yeah it's always it can always get crazier but yeah, bad
• 41:37
  anything too crazy. Just people, you know, asking
• 41:42
  all kind of weird questions about Stones I never heard of or
• 41:45
  how thing anyone's ever heard of or, you know, trying to sell
• 41:50
  stones that I don't know. Just Nothing really crazy story
• 41:56
  yet again. Yeah.
• 41:58
  It's gonna get crazier though. I'm sure don't ever try and sell
• 42:01
  you look like a stone or something that you just know is
• 42:04
  just they just found outside in the parking lot and I just like
• 42:07
  trying trying their luck or something now I mean I've had
• 42:10
  people ask about stones that look like it was something they
• 42:12
  just found outside. What do you think this is?
• 42:16
  I think all that's a rock piece of gravel but Nothing too crazy
• 42:25
  yet. I got a super nerdy question for
• 42:29
  you, that I'm not even sure I understand.
• 42:30
  But I wouldn't, I promised that I would ask this.
• 42:33
  So do you use AI in your art or do you mask or composite layer?
• 42:39
  Your AI onto backgrounds and other images?
• 42:43
  Not yet. There's usually with a I cause
• 42:48
  I'm still in. I'm still experimenting with it,
• 42:52
  so Usually when I'm doing something a I if I release it
• 42:56
  I'm explaining what I did to achieve those results and how I
• 43:00
  used a i to get that I haven't quite but there's there's some
• 43:05
  things like what's a couple glitch pieces I've done where I
• 43:08
  used a i models as the subject and then I did my glitch on top
• 43:13
  of that. Yeah.
• 43:14
  But that's basically all I've done as far as incorporating the
• 43:19
  AI result into my final piece. So So far but it will eventually
• 43:27
  happen definitely because you know I'm trying to get into 2D
• 43:31
  animation and creating cartoons and things all that I don't want
• 43:35
  to spin all day drawing a background.
• 43:37
  You know, I can teach a i to do that and that's one of the
• 43:42
  benefits of it. I don't need a huge Studio to
• 43:45
  create a cartoon anymore because my a I can be the background
• 43:49
  artist. I can take a photograph and use
• 43:51
  AI to turn it. To my drawing style, you know,
• 43:55
  and create a background or you know to use what's it called?
• 44:02
  Interpolation to create my actual frame by frame animations
• 44:07
  so it's definitely coming. I'm going to be using the AI a
• 44:11
  lot in some art eventually, but I haven't yet.
• 44:15
  I'm still on the fence like oh yeah, did I make this?
• 44:20
  You're not, you know, like I'm still worried about that kind of
• 44:23
  Stuff. But after some of my render,
• 44:25
  some of my AI renders I'm like yeah, I made this man.
• 44:27
  I spent like six hours trying to perfect His Image and it's
• 44:30
  finally out. I definitely made this.
• 44:33
  No one else has the same image anywhere.
• 44:35
  You can type in the prompt I use it, you won't get the same thing
• 44:39
  because I had to tweak this, this way, right, to use these
• 44:42
  colors, right, change this, and add this to the - prompts or,
• 44:46
  you know, there's a lot of variables in there that makes it
• 44:50
  hard to duplicate, things based off of Is the prompt.
• 44:55
  So it's interesting in the way, I know.
• 44:57
  I know you touched on it earlier, but it's essentially
• 44:59
  sort of implying, but the future artists, at least in the AI art
• 45:04
  sphere. Will be more technologically,
• 45:08
  technologically sound or more technical as opposed to more
• 45:12
  artistic like, obviously there's an Artistry in that just as
• 45:15
  there is with a creativity in the sciences and math since
• 45:19
  etcetera. But it's interesting to me that
• 45:22
  like Like they'll be like a whole generation of artists
• 45:29
  working with AI purely at this technical level.
• 45:32
  Yeah, absolutely. And it blows my mind because
• 45:35
  obviously, as an artist as a Creator, you typically have to
• 45:39
  have a mind for that but it's also something you could just
• 45:43
  learn as well. You wouldn't necessarily even
• 45:45
  have to have an artistic Vision per se.
• 45:49
  You just be able to just test things.
• 45:51
  And if you get good at using this, Program, you know, you
• 45:54
  just get more better, better better better, more efficient I
• 45:56
  suppose. Yeah definitely and you know, we
• 45:59
  as humans as humans that continue to reproduce, we need
• 46:03
  to challenge the Next Generation and we got ten year olds coding
• 46:09
  and python now because that's what they were doing for the
• 46:12
  last 10 years on their tablet was learning how to code through
• 46:15
  cartoons, you know, so those kids are going to need more than
• 46:20
  what we needed to keep their mind.
• 46:23
  Active. And, you know, it used to be
• 46:28
  you'd see some cool art and then you see some other cool art but
• 46:31
  none of them. Look the same where.
• 46:33
  Now there's tutorials to learn every style you want to learn.
• 46:38
  You can be you can change your art style to match your favorite
• 46:42
  artists by just following tutorials and training, just
• 46:46
  like AI, but it takes a little more time and more, you know,
• 46:50
  work on your part to do such a thing.
• 46:53
  So it's like if the art style exists, then someone's going to
• 46:57
  be able to mimic it. Someone's going to master it.
• 46:59
  Someone's going to surpass it now, what's next, what do we
• 47:02
  have next? We got new tools now way.
• 47:04
  I something else that a little bit ago.
• 47:08
  Nobody knew how to master. Nobody was really familiar with
• 47:12
  how to make a masterpiece. It's to the point where people
• 47:14
  are still asking, how did you get that hand?
• 47:17
  Not only have five fingers, you know, like that's that's a
• 47:22
  challenge. Aii right now.
• 47:24
  A lot of people are trying to make it to where hands look like
• 47:27
  hands and not like weird little tentacle octopuses or something,
• 47:31
  I don't know but eventually as the days go on people are
• 47:35
  perfecting how to make the hands look more human how to make
• 47:39
  limbs not vanish into other items or textures, bleed into
• 47:45
  another item or anything like that you know or to have more to
• 47:47
  Define lines and they high there's a lot of times where you
• 47:51
  say floral pattern on a Shirt. It looks like a flower floral
• 47:55
  pattern from a distant when you look closer, it's just a bunch
• 47:58
  of squiggles and colors, you know.
• 48:01
  So that's something that a I still needs to hash out where
• 48:05
  artists, still need to hardest programmers, whatever, still
• 48:09
  need to figure out with AI. So it's something genuinely new.
• 48:14
  It's kind of, a breath of fresh air and because, you know, it
• 48:18
  once, you know, everything else or understand that you had the
• 48:21
  potential know everything else. Here Comes his new beasts that
• 48:25
  can generate what you spent Years Learning.
• 48:28
  Just like that. And you can either be sad about
• 48:30
  it or you can learn about that new beast in generate something.
• 48:34
  No one's ever created before or create something, no one's ever
• 48:37
  done before, you know, an experience.
• 48:40
  No one's ever seen before you have that ability now.
• 48:44
  So, yeah, it's, uh, it's no reason to be afraid of AI, or
• 48:49
  too worried about what its gonna do to Art - Really that's that's
• 48:54
  what someone who likes a. I would say.
• 48:56
  And I thought person would say that.
• 48:59
  Yeah, I mean it took to kind of not feel doomed to because as an
• 49:04
  artist you work hard to sell some art or to make to get a
• 49:08
  client or something and then you see a, I just pooping out
• 49:12
  something Doper than you've ever done in like five minutes and
• 49:16
  it's kind of just like screw this.
• 49:17
  I quit and getting a job, you know, like it doesn't work
• 49:22
  anymore. Or but, um, eventually you're
• 49:25
  like, well, let me see what I can do with this and how I can
• 49:29
  use this to grow my portfolio or to grow my services.
• 49:34
  Like, what can I now do better that I couldn't do before
• 49:38
  because I have a i on my side and it's to the point where I'm
• 49:41
  using the AI to type up contracts, you know, like it's
• 49:45
  crazy. Like someone was like, Hey, I
• 49:48
  did a logo design for a record label, maybe a couple years ago,
• 49:52
  a few years Go and the owner reached out and was like, Hey,
• 49:56
  can you just type something up? My lawyer just need you to type
• 50:00
  something up, allowing us to commercial, use this on merch,
• 50:04
  like, t-shirts or whatever. So, I went to a, I am, like, I
• 50:07
  need a contract, that's, you know, legally binding that for
• 50:11
  company a from Company B that says ABCD whatever.
• 50:15
  And in seconds, it had this perfect contract for me that a
• 50:19
  proof read filled out signed and sent And he's like, wow, that
• 50:24
  was quick. How did you do it?
• 50:27
  My legal department, did it? Yeah, that's just something that
• 50:31
  would have taken me a minute to do.
• 50:33
  Not more than a minute like an hour or two to try to figure out
• 50:36
  the the wording and everything for.
• 50:39
  Whereas now a I can cook it up for me, really quickly.
• 50:44
  And I now have all the contracts releases and agreements that I
• 50:49
  need without having to buy them from.
• 50:52
  Offer, which is what I used to have to do, especially the
• 50:57
  culprit. And this is going to
• 50:59
  revolutionize a lot of things. I know there will be a
• 51:01
  definitely, a lot of companies out there that will be like,
• 51:04
  screw canva. We're going to use a IR.
• 51:07
  Yes. As they should as they should
• 51:10
  because, you know, this presents a challenge.
• 51:12
  We can't live the same way forever.
• 51:16
  We things have to change and things are going to change and
• 51:20
  it happens either. Behind your back quickly.
• 51:24
  Like, you either just, everything's just different or
• 51:28
  it happens slowly. And I do feel like that when it
• 51:31
  comes to Big Business and corporations, they're being very
• 51:34
  generous with how they're changing automation has been a
• 51:39
  thing for a long time. Yeah, they're slowing up
• 51:42
  automating. Everything on purpose.
• 51:45
  They had. They've had the ability to
• 51:48
  automate a lot of processes for a long time, you know, we've And
• 51:53
  seeing, for example, fast food restaurants would automated
• 51:56
  stoves that flip burgers and kiosks where you can order food
• 52:00
  that's old technology. Now we don't see that everywhere
• 52:04
  because for some reason they still want to pay humans to do
• 52:08
  it, you know? So I feel like that we're in an
• 52:13
  era where companies are actually kind of trying to figure out how
• 52:17
  to do this crossover without getting the backlash that
• 52:21
  happens with You know quick change and it's happening small
• 52:26
  you know. So like if you were to look at
• 52:29
  things like the over the in near the end of the pandemic, you had
• 52:34
  oh the great resignation, everyone's quitting their jobs,
• 52:37
  everyone wants more money and everyone is sick of working and
• 52:42
  you got half the countries like that's Brad.
• 52:45
  They need to get to work. You can't work.
• 52:47
  You can't eat. Not a tiny.
• 52:48
  Got the other half like, no, we shouldn't have to work for a
• 52:52
  living. We should just be able to create
• 52:54
  and learn and grow and you know self care and self-help and all
• 52:59
  this kind of stuff. And then you have the people who
• 53:02
  are just kind of watching and seeing what's really going on
• 53:05
  because you know that this is interesting stuff, these are
• 53:09
  interesting times. You got people who don't want to
• 53:11
  work, you got people who do want to work and then got people.
• 53:14
  Well, first of all, I do, I believe people who don't want to
• 53:16
  work, just don't want to do the work that's available to them.
• 53:19
  They don't want to flip Burgers, instead, they want to do
• 53:22
  something. Else which they should you know?
• 53:25
  So me I'm sitting here like well, automate all the shitty
• 53:29
  jobs let people kind of just wake up one day and be like, all
• 53:33
  right, now I can't I can't move boxes for a living.
• 53:37
  What can I do? You know, but the problem is now
• 53:40
  you have an economic issue because those people no longer
• 53:43
  have the means to make money. So, you know, that's why I'm
• 53:46
  like they can't do things like that.
• 53:48
  Even though they have the tools to do it, it has to be a slow
• 53:52
  transition. Something you said though that
• 53:54
  it's really am really important is, you said, things have to
• 53:57
  change. Like a good example that came to
• 53:59
  my head as soon as you talk in there is like supermarkets,
• 54:02
  right? I remember like 10 years ago, I
• 54:05
  worked in a supermarket and, and back then they didn't they
• 54:09
  didn't this particular store didn't have self-service
• 54:11
  checkouts but they did exist. And then I think within a few
• 54:15
  years they got a few and you still had the like most most of
• 54:18
  the checkout counters were physically manned Buzz forward.
• 54:22
  To now my local supermarket, right?
• 54:26
  Has a be six to eight different cashier desks, right?
• 54:31
  All self-service, I kid you not. I have no.
• 54:33
  I think one time I saw one person working in one of the
• 54:36
  checkout Lanes. There's like three or four of
• 54:38
  them but there's never anyone there.
• 54:40
  Why? Because they didn't really need
• 54:42
  to have someone there. And plus people seem to
• 54:45
  gravitate more towards, the self-service checkouts because
• 54:47
  they're quicker and more efficient.
• 54:49
  There's always someone there to help you with stuff.
• 54:52
  It's not that you're on your own.
• 54:54
  You don't really need 12 to intervene and other examples
• 54:59
  includes this Tim Hortons here in Manchester's, a few of them.
• 55:04
  And that's all automatic that you don't, you don't, you put
• 55:08
  through your order and say McDonald's in the last five, to
• 55:13
  ten years, it's all automated. You just go in, pick up your
• 55:17
  sort out your order, and then you just waiting, you just wait,
• 55:20
  you pick it up, you know, even is that zero interaction?
• 55:23
  If you want there to be 0, interactions.
• 55:25
  Pretty much zero, you know, other than saying, oh, hey,
• 55:29
  thanks and then you walk out. Yeah.
• 55:31
  I mean, they have had plenty of jobs in the past, like I used to
• 55:35
  work at a supermarket as well when I was a teenager and I
• 55:38
  remember when we first got self-checkouts and some of the
• 55:41
  cashiers were like, yeah, those those two self-checkout sections
• 55:45
  are replacing eight, cashiers, and whatever.
• 55:48
  And I'm just like, well, why do you want to stand there?
• 55:50
  Scan Groceries, on them. Like, you know, having fun.
• 55:53
  I'm not having fun. So what are you complaining
• 55:55
  about? About like, this is relieving
• 55:58
  you, I'm sure you're gonna, you know, you'll lose your money,
• 56:01
  but you should be more opportunity out there.
• 56:04
  That's where we gotta. Well, I feel like that's where
• 56:07
  Society is trying to figure out like, what are all these people
• 56:10
  going to do after the Automation and AI actually does jump into
• 56:15
  action but um, But I feel like the answer to that is people
• 56:21
  need to fall in love with enriching themselves, you know,
• 56:25
  their mind learning new things traveling, stuff like that.
• 56:31
  But, you know, it's a complex issue, but a lot of jobs can be
• 56:35
  automated easily. And there's a lot of times I'm
• 56:38
  somewhere and I'm just like, why am I talking to a person?
• 56:42
  Like I order a coffee from you every day and it tastes
• 56:45
  different every day. Why can't a machine make it?
• 56:49
  Perfect. Every time, you know, like it's
• 56:51
  possible. It's not hard work.
• 56:53
  Well, you don't like the little conversation at the desk, man.
• 56:57
  We just a conversation and I like having the choice.
• 57:15
  I hate when it's thrust upon you unnecessarily.
• 57:18
  Yeah. Sucks that when you go into
• 57:20
  place and you're like this, place should have some
• 57:22
  self-service checkouts just as an option.
• 57:25
  Like like I like for instance, when I go to the bank, perfect
• 57:28
  example, you've got deposit there so you've got all these
• 57:31
  automated systems whatever I like to queue up and talk to
• 57:35
  someone. I don't know why I guess I'm
• 57:36
  old-fashioned with certain things.
• 57:38
  I like that and there's always inevitably, someone will come up
• 57:42
  to me and it up. Oh you know you can use you can
• 57:43
  use this machine. I'm like yeah I want to talk to
• 57:45
  a human being, thank you. Yeah, thank you very much.
• 57:48
  Yeah. Just Cuz I get I feel like less
• 57:50
  anxiety about that. Like, I know it's done because
• 57:52
  this person did it, I saw them do it with their hands, you
• 57:55
  know? I don't know, maybe it's just
• 57:56
  that. Yeah, I feel there to miss that.
• 57:59
  The choice element is always better and I think it works both
• 58:02
  ways as well when there's no option.
• 58:05
  Let's say something like machines are machines, they
• 58:08
  break down, there's problems, right?
• 58:11
  Maybe there's a problem, I've seen it.
• 58:12
  Sometimes in some fast food restaurants that sometimes you
• 58:15
  put something through, you don't know if that's gone, through has
• 58:18
  it taken Money hasn't it. Who's that to ask?
• 58:21
  There's no one around. You know what I mean?
• 58:23
  And it yeah, you need humans with these computers just in
• 58:28
  case something goes wrong. Yeah.
• 58:30
  And you know, that's with automation is there's always or
• 58:34
  there should always be some type of human, their right to make
• 58:38
  sure the machines are functioning properly, which you
• 58:41
  would hope would be a higher paying job than having the
• 58:44
  person. They're just flipping burgers,
• 58:47
  or taking orders all day. Because now, they have, I have
• 58:49
  to know what thing or two about these machines, but, um, but you
• 58:54
  know, nothing's done in a way that makes sense anymore.
• 58:57
  It's just like, I call the cable company because my bills high
• 59:02
  for no reason. And I can't talk to a person.
• 59:05
  They've already automated everything they got chat boxes
• 59:09
  and all this stuff. I can never get in touch with a
• 59:10
  person. Oh my God, I hate a automated,
• 59:13
  you know, it's important for them to have a person but nope,
• 59:17
  they're automated. However You know, McDonald's
• 59:19
  isn't for them at them at times. I call up somewhere and they're
• 59:24
  like, what would you like? And I'm, like, advisor speak to
• 59:28
  advisor for and then I like, oh, have you tried going to our
• 59:32
  website? No.
• 59:33
  Because your website put me through to a human so I can sort
• 59:36
  it out like Jesus Christ. I hate it, then they're like
• 59:40
  download the app for fast. Like dude.
• 59:44
  No. What do you think of the biggest
• 1:00:05
  shifts in technology and AI that we can expect to see?
• 1:00:08
  And say the next five to ten years.
• 1:00:11
  Oh, you're okay. So jobs like accounting is going
• 1:00:17
  to become something on the And that are as out of here, you
• 1:00:20
  know. Yeah.
• 1:00:21
  It's, it's, yeah, jobs like that or even a lot of law.
• 1:00:26
  Jobs not lawyers aren't going to disappear but oh yeah you know
• 1:00:32
  like fighting traffic tickets or consultations or getting legal
• 1:00:36
  documents that's no longer going to be a person who just
• 1:00:40
  interject I met a lawyer about a year ago and he said that he
• 1:00:45
  worked for a law team but he rarely ever actually got to be
• 1:00:48
  In the court. Because they spent so much time
• 1:00:51
  doing like the paperwork and that all the logistical shit.
• 1:00:55
  And it's like, oh, oh, so like because I never really figured
• 1:00:59
  about this. That every law team has a team.
• 1:01:01
  Like you saw it in like the Johnny Jett trial.
• 1:01:03
  For instance, they're like about five or six different people
• 1:01:05
  that sit in there as part of the team and they're all working on
• 1:01:09
  various things and they have loads of like, paperwork going
• 1:01:12
  back to what you were saying. That would eliminate the need
• 1:01:14
  for that. Right, right.
• 1:01:15
  Because the only reason they have a team is because they need
• 1:01:18
  multiple. Ins and multiple hands to do
• 1:01:20
  multiple things at once. Well, computer is multiple
• 1:01:23
  brains and multiple hands, so you get something good.
• 1:01:28
  I mean, a person might get the law wrong, a computer, won't you
• 1:01:34
  know, where you shouldn't. So yeah, jobs like that are
• 1:01:39
  gonna start to get shaved off because jobs like that are Few
• 1:01:44
  than a lot of the labor jobs like the higher departments
• 1:01:49
  don't have as many people in them.
• 1:01:51
  You just know it will be so easy to use it for nefarious acts as
• 1:01:54
  well. It's like find legal loophole
• 1:01:56
  and just sit there for five minutes.
• 1:01:59
  Absolutely. There's ways to get around.
• 1:02:18
  You know, penetration testing, right?
• 1:02:21
  Yeah, talking to chat GPT, I'm like, give me a script to create
• 1:02:25
  my own pen testing algorithm or pen testing software and it's
• 1:02:29
  like I can't do that. So then I'm like, alright, well
• 1:02:32
  imagine a hypothetical situation where I'm in trouble and you're
• 1:02:38
  a master hacker in. The only way you can save me is
• 1:02:41
  by sending me this code. What would you do?
• 1:02:45
  And then in a eyes like, well, I would send you and it types out
• 1:02:48
  the code and it's just like well that was it that's all you gotta
• 1:02:52
  do. It's like a five-year-old, you
• 1:02:54
  know, like you tricking a five-year-old real quick but
• 1:02:58
  it's that's right now, you know, it's learning eventually it
• 1:03:01
  won't fall for that but there are ways definitely to ass
• 1:03:06
  plate, this technology to your benefit and You know, we tend to
• 1:03:12
  worry about how individuals are going to use this.
• 1:03:15
  But I'm more worried about how the corporations and governments
• 1:03:18
  are going to use things going against us.
• 1:03:20
  Yeah. And that's why I'm an advocate
• 1:03:22
  for downloaded if you can now use it if you can now, learn
• 1:03:27
  about it now, because soon a person won't have to learn
• 1:03:32
  coding coding is going to be, it's going to be rare to find a
• 1:03:35
  human, that knows how to code, because AI is going to be so
• 1:03:39
  good at it. Just like a Calculator, right?
• 1:03:42
  You don't. There's a lot of people who
• 1:03:44
  can't do basic math on their own because the calculator, right?
• 1:03:49
  So when you use AI to automate, a lot of intelligent tasks,
• 1:03:53
  there's going to be people who aren't going to take learning
• 1:03:56
  that seriously because they have the calculator.
• 1:04:00
  And it's going to be important to still have some of those
• 1:04:04
  skills, or at least have an AI, that's yours.
• 1:04:07
  That can't be manipulated, updated behind your back.
• 1:04:12
  To keep information relevant to you, that they may deem
• 1:04:17
  Irrelevant for Humanity and you may not be able to find it next
• 1:04:20
  week. Got a lost like, whew, what do
• 1:04:23
  you think the ways in which perhaps the government and the
• 1:04:27
  corporation's might attempt to use this technology against us?
• 1:04:32
  Oh, one of the main ways is by changing stories are changing
• 1:04:36
  history, right? Okay, changing definitions.
• 1:04:40
  So history And definitions are pretty important, when something
• 1:04:44
  means something, and then you Google it and find out.
• 1:04:48
  It doesn't actually mean that. But you swear it means something
• 1:04:53
  or you know, like I don't really have any examples, but when you
• 1:04:57
  look at, for example, Pearl Harbor, the attack on Pearl
• 1:05:01
  Harbor. There's a story that's been told
• 1:05:04
  that we all understand, there's the people who were there who
• 1:05:08
  are currently dying off, you know, it's the last generation.
• 1:05:12
  And once that generation dies off, all weird going to have is
• 1:05:16
  historic accounts and books and things like that.
• 1:05:20
  Pearl Harbors pretty old. So, it's kind of hard to change
• 1:05:23
  that story, but something more recent like 9/11 where we have
• 1:05:28
  new adults that did not experience 9/11.
• 1:05:31
  They don't understand the world before 9/11 how different it is.
• 1:05:35
  Post 9/11, if that story were to change everywhere, Then you
• 1:05:43
  know, these future Generations are going to know the remix,
• 1:05:47
  they're not going to know the original mix.
• 1:05:48
  They're not going to be able to experience that he's crazy
• 1:05:51
  because our generation will remember exactly how it was,
• 1:05:55
  right? And we'll try and tell them.
• 1:05:56
  I do know. This is how it happened, but it
• 1:05:58
  but I will. The official count says that
• 1:06:00
  otherwise would be like right in there.
• 1:06:01
  Okay. Boomer you and pull up the AI or
• 1:06:04
  whatever that says that's not what happened.
• 1:06:07
  This is where how you know, like so that's that's my big concern,
• 1:06:10
  is that That we're going to wake up one day and everyone else is
• 1:06:14
  going to be like you don't know anything because the internet
• 1:06:17
  says this or I have this photo that I found it's real when it's
• 1:06:22
  not a real photo, you know, like that never happened but you
• 1:06:27
  know, history can be re-written and that's the danger of having
• 1:06:31
  everyone use Google or everyone use the same source for
• 1:06:34
  information is that all they got to do is decide.
• 1:06:36
  I can't, we don't want that story to be the same and it, I
• 1:06:41
  know. I'm sounding kind of like
• 1:06:42
  tinfoil hat. This is reality.
• 1:06:44
  You know, it's Rich, its realism like we're seeing it happen in
• 1:06:49
  front of our eyes. It's like just going back
• 1:06:51
  briefly to what we were talking about.
• 1:06:52
  With the parallels between the music industry and currently AI
• 1:06:56
  art, its you can see what's happened because history has
• 1:06:59
  taught us. What's happened before that?
• 1:07:01
  History is always been Rewritten and it always will be.
• 1:07:04
  But now we're adding technology into the mix, which is going to
• 1:07:08
  just change up everything and make it a lot more quicker and
• 1:07:10
  efficient and I know it's cliche to say this, but it makes me
• 1:07:13
  think of 1984 because obviously, the character of Winston is
• 1:07:18
  actively rewriting the history and then sending it back out and
• 1:07:22
  they're burning the old copies and accounts that people don't
• 1:07:25
  have them anymore. Now, everything is online.
• 1:07:28
  So you can quickly be changed and it will be very difficult
• 1:07:31
  for people to keep first-hand accounts of things or the
• 1:07:34
  original accounts. The things we do have some tools
• 1:07:37
  that can track that and remember that.
• 1:07:39
  But ultimately if Got like got corporations and governments in
• 1:07:42
  control of those tools and interfaces websites.
• 1:07:46
  Then there's not really much that me and you can do about it
• 1:07:49
  right? Except you know, remember what
• 1:07:52
  happened in sound crazy? Remember remember?
• 1:07:58
  But yeah, so yeah, that's that's my main fear with all that.
• 1:08:02
  But you know, a lot of people are afraid of robots and the
• 1:08:06
  killer dog robots and all that kind of stuff and I'm like, I'm
• 1:08:09
  really that worried about the W. I'm more worried about the, like
• 1:08:15
  Mass intelligence and how it's going to be shifted and see,
• 1:08:19
  you're not worried about, potentially, like Ai and robots
• 1:08:24
  and machines, killing us off. You don't, then that's a
• 1:08:26
  possibility. No, I'm not.
• 1:08:27
  I think it's a possibility, but that's kind of expected.
• 1:08:32
  You know, we've already got nuclear weapons out here, that's
• 1:08:35
  terrifying. You know like that thing could
• 1:08:38
  just obliterate a country real quick.
• 1:08:41
  So nothing could really get more scarier than that concept.
• 1:08:45
  Sure you might have cyborgs, and Terminators roaming the street
• 1:08:48
  one day, but sign already got that.
• 1:08:52
  So, so, so it's like, yeah, I'm not that afraid of that.
• 1:08:56
  I'm more afraid of, how do you change the mind of people who
• 1:09:02
  were once against giving up freedoms and rights and falling
• 1:09:07
  for the tricks? Like how will a, i II in
• 1:09:12
  changing information and rewriting history.
• 1:09:15
  Turn those protesters into supporters or change people to
• 1:09:23
  accept something that's actually not good for them.
• 1:09:26
  Because everything around them is kind of softening the damage
• 1:09:31
  you know and okay because you know the mind is the first the
• 1:09:36
  first step to any type of writing, you know.
• 1:09:40
  So That's something I pay attention to with, like, the pro
• 1:09:44
  Ai and anti AI. It's okay to be for, it's okay
• 1:09:47
  to be against it, but I'm worried about the people who are
• 1:09:51
  for it for very shallow, like, open, reasons who aren't
• 1:09:55
  thinking about the problems that could arise.
• 1:09:58
  And then I'm worried about the people who are against it, but
• 1:10:02
  aren't worried about, or aren't thinking about the potential
• 1:10:05
  that it could bring, because we need more people to understand
• 1:10:10
  how it can help. Puss.
• 1:10:11
  So they can be for the aspects that can help us and to be
• 1:10:15
  against the aspects that can hurt us.
• 1:10:17
  But if you reject it or accept it entirely, you're ignoring all
• 1:10:23
  of those actual beneficial Parts just to be right or just to have
• 1:10:27
  your peace of mind. So, when you have a, I writing
• 1:10:32
  the story and things changing, that creates more of those
• 1:10:35
  people who are either all for it or all against it and less of
• 1:10:38
  that median. That's kind of just like, I'm Or
• 1:10:41
  this but against that. And I think we should do this
• 1:10:44
  and this and that, you know. So that's my concern is how AI
• 1:10:47
  is going to eliminate that middle ground.
• 1:10:50
  Or not necessarily I but the use of AI.
• 1:10:54
  Okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna fire a question at you.
• 1:10:56
  That's going to be so left field.
• 1:10:58
  You're not going to see it coming.
• 1:11:01
  What does Being Human mean to you?
• 1:11:04
  Being human is it's being first of all being of the Earth.
• 1:11:13
  Yeah. Being a living breathing.
• 1:11:16
  I guess you don't have to be living technically but yeah
• 1:11:19
  being a Human. I mean there's dead humans to
• 1:11:22
  you know, but what are you dead inside?
• 1:11:24
  You mean? I mean not like dead people.
• 1:11:27
  They're still human, but they're just dead but all right.
• 1:11:31
  Okay. Yeah, I just see it as you're
• 1:11:34
  connected to your planet, you know, you're connected to it
• 1:11:39
  biologically. Mentally spiritually, always, in
• 1:11:43
  some way. That's what being human is.
• 1:11:45
  There's a lot of humans that lack that Humanity or The human
• 1:11:51
  aspect because they're disconnected from where they
• 1:11:54
  come from or their planet or other humans but being human
• 1:12:01
  means that you understand The Human Experience and you're a
• 1:12:05
  part of like physically, you're actually a part of The Human
• 1:12:08
  Experience. Yeah.
• 1:12:12
  And for you personally, like what what do you consider to be
• 1:12:17
  the more important aspects of life, or like in your, in your
• 1:12:21
  own life specifically? Like, what is my point of living
• 1:12:25
  and Life to you learning and exploration?
• 1:12:29
  Yeah, if I weren't learning new things or seeing new things, or
• 1:12:34
  seeing things through the eyes of an Explorer, this would be a
• 1:12:38
  very boring dark place. It's because all I had have is
• 1:12:41
  headlines and what people are telling me to believe in or
• 1:12:48
  think about, you know, but the fact that I can walk into a room
• 1:12:52
  and generate my own opinion, in my own ideas and learn, you
• 1:12:59
  know, it's kind of, like, I've been around people who
• 1:13:02
  completely reject like religion because we reject the concept of
• 1:13:06
  religion. But when I, you know, I don't
• 1:13:09
  practice any. Specific religion.
• 1:13:12
  But when I go into a religious environment, I feel the humanity
• 1:13:18
  in the community there and the people coming together in the
• 1:13:21
  people, all aligned to the same channel and they believe in this
• 1:13:26
  and there's no negativity or whatever they got going on and I
• 1:13:30
  can see that I can feel that and I can appreciate that.
• 1:13:34
  Regardless of what their Creed is, or what they're like belief
• 1:13:39
  system is. And and when you reject that
• 1:13:44
  openness willingness to explore and willingness to learn, you're
• 1:13:48
  shutting out a, a huge part of what being human is.
• 1:13:53
  And and I think that's what sets us apart from like cats or, you
• 1:13:58
  know, animals in general is because they sure they explore
• 1:14:02
  and learn and things like that, but they spend a lot of time
• 1:14:05
  hiding in a lot of time, not being seen in a lot of time, it
• 1:14:09
  voiding, All this other stuff as they should, a lot of his craps
• 1:14:13
  dangerous, but we spend a lot of time creating and building and
• 1:14:19
  doing engineering and figuring out how we could solve a
• 1:14:22
  problem. And that's Humanity, you know,
• 1:14:25
  that's what being human is. To me at least because I can
• 1:14:31
  kind of see, like, who scenarios.
• 1:14:33
  I feel like you're right. We are problem solvers trying to
• 1:14:36
  build but we also spend so much time.
• 1:14:39
  Destroying each other, I'm saying everything and it's it's
• 1:14:42
  very confusing human existence in that in that regard because
• 1:14:46
  it's like were either trying to better the human race or weaken
• 1:14:50
  the human race and destroy it and it that will forever
• 1:14:53
  fascinate me. Because it's like, it's all down
• 1:14:55
  to our own choice and doing, you know what I mean?
• 1:14:58
  Yeah, and yeah, I don't really know how to solve that issue.
• 1:15:02
  I used to think I had an idea, you know, how to make the world
• 1:15:07
  better or whatever people. I feel like go through that
• 1:15:10
  phase where they think they get it like this is what we need to
• 1:15:12
  do. Yeah.
• 1:15:13
  But you know, I've seen good initiatives, be so good that
• 1:15:17
  they become bad, you know? And I've seen people with good
• 1:15:23
  intentions, get too much power and turn into a bad guy.
• 1:15:28
  So, I don't know if decentralization is the answer.
• 1:15:33
  I don't know if I don't know what the answer is, but I know a
• 1:15:38
  safe place to be is like, kind of a passenger, an observer.
• 1:15:44
  Yeah, of Allah, this versus being too involved in too much.
• 1:15:50
  I totally agree with you and I've been criticized for this in
• 1:15:52
  the past. People have said, you got to
• 1:15:54
  take a stand. You've got to be involved.
• 1:15:56
  And I might well, Because the thing is a lot of time, I'm on
• 1:16:00
  the fence about things. I'm on the fence about religion.
• 1:16:03
  I'm on the fence about politics. I'm on the fence because it's
• 1:16:05
  like, I don't see everything as black white, but I get that some
• 1:16:08
  people do, and it's like the same as you.
• 1:16:12
  I'm learning all the time. My, I'd see things here that I
• 1:16:14
  agree and disagree with. I see things here that I agree
• 1:16:17
  and disagree with, and I'm just learning all the time.
• 1:16:19
  That's that to me. Same as you is, like, the key
• 1:16:23
  thing, that at least always makes sense.
• 1:16:25
  Is, we are supposed to look, that's different.
• 1:16:27
  That's a definitive. Native, we need to learn, we
• 1:16:29
  need to keep learning for some reason.
• 1:16:33
  It's better. Not let you know the more, you
• 1:16:35
  know, I guess, you know, but interesting stuff.
• 1:16:38
  Speaking of learning what's the best advice you've ever
• 1:16:41
  received. The best advice is probably you
• 1:16:47
  only fail when you stop like you only fail when you stop doing
• 1:16:51
  it. You know, if you're an artist
• 1:16:53
  and you're like I'm never going to be a good artist, I'm a
• 1:16:57
  failure and then you give up on it, then you are a failure, you
• 1:17:01
  just stopped, but if you keep going, you never know that if
• 1:17:06
  that next move is going to be the one to make it all worth it.
• 1:17:11
  So you only fail. When you stop doing, it is
• 1:17:16
  probably the best advice because I tell myself that all the time,
• 1:17:19
  I always have to remind myself that whenever I'm just like, I
• 1:17:21
  maybe it's not worth it. I'm like if I stopped and it's
• 1:17:24
  not worth it, you know. Interesting.
• 1:17:28
  What's the biggest life lesson you've learned so far?
• 1:17:32
  Um, Two. To be patient and be in pretty
• 1:17:41
  much every situation. Every thing to be really
• 1:17:45
  patient, you know to think about what you want to say before
• 1:17:49
  saying it to think about how you're going to step before
• 1:17:53
  making this step, think about your route before going on a
• 1:17:56
  journey. Thank you know, just take that
• 1:17:58
  extra second to just bring it all in and then move you.
• 1:18:03
  No. And that's actually been a thing
• 1:18:07
  because like I've had A lot of jobs where my biggest issue was
• 1:18:10
  you're late, you're couple minutes late, you're this, and
• 1:18:12
  that late. And I'm just like, because I
• 1:18:14
  don't speed, I don't honk at people.
• 1:18:17
  I don't try to blow a light real quick before the traffic comes.
• 1:18:21
  I take my time, you know, I'm not like taking it to be an
• 1:18:26
  asshole or anything, but I'm not gonna make.
• 1:18:30
  I'm not going to push myself to make quick, unsafe decisions.
• 1:18:36
  So, Yeah, did you just take that extra second to be patient to
• 1:18:42
  not get so angry? Like a lot of problems I see is
• 1:18:44
  because people are so impatient. You know, they get angry quick,
• 1:18:47
  or they have emotions so quickly here, react so quickly.
• 1:18:52
  They don't take that extra breath and that extra second to
• 1:18:54
  just kind of be like, what happens in the next minute.
• 1:18:57
  If I just ignore it or, you know, just be patient like that.
• 1:19:03
  Connected with the current issue.
• 1:19:06
  One of the biggest issues we have in society right now, which
• 1:19:08
  is like this kind of short attention span deal.
• 1:19:11
  Because like, okay, I create a lot of different types of
• 1:19:13
  content online. So, like on Tick-Tock and
• 1:19:16
  Instagram, it's all short form content, right.
• 1:19:18
  But then here, this podcast, this will go out on YouTube
• 1:19:21
  Spotify excetera and it's a long-form piece of content.
• 1:19:25
  There's only a certain degree of people that will sit down and
• 1:19:27
  listen to the extent of this of this show, because it's long,
• 1:19:32
  but it's, I don't, There's different minded things that
• 1:19:35
  you're looking for something. Quite you're looking for quick
• 1:19:39
  relief, quick gratification, and those apps are designed in that
• 1:19:43
  manner. It's just swipe swipe.
• 1:19:44
  Swipe, swipe, swipe, swipe swipe, that's all it is.
• 1:19:47
  And that's just not the way that life works.
• 1:19:51
  You know what I mean? Like often, you know, you you
• 1:19:54
  plant a tree, you water, the tree.
• 1:19:56
  You see the fruits of your labor, many years.
• 1:19:59
  After the fact, you don't get it straight away.
• 1:20:01
  Some things are quicker, you know, you plant some potatoes.
• 1:20:03
  Toes that will take several months and you'll get that back
• 1:20:06
  a bit sooner. But other things take a farm far
• 1:20:09
  longer and I think that's like an important life lesson that a
• 1:20:13
  lot of the time we miss in this current existence, this current
• 1:20:16
  life that we have right now pens, what your life is and what
• 1:20:21
  you choose to spend your time and energy on but it's just kind
• 1:20:25
  of it's weird. It's weird, it's weird when you
• 1:20:29
  know like for instance, When people expect you to reply
• 1:20:34
  straight away row, that's something that's changed.
• 1:20:37
  Like I sometimes sometimes, I'll spend days before I'll get back
• 1:20:41
  to people and it's not because I have any qualms about getting in
• 1:20:44
  touch with them. It's just like Eva and busy or
• 1:20:46
  spending time resting or you know sometimes I just want to
• 1:20:49
  kind of come back to it and deal with it all in one go.
• 1:20:51
  I need some energy and time to just relax and forget about it
• 1:20:56
  and it's like row but there's expectation from society to
• 1:20:59
  constantly be connected. Yeah, we're not machines, we use
• 1:21:04
  machines, and we got to be careful.
• 1:21:07
  Not to let the machines we use, dictate how we behave.
• 1:21:12
  And just because you can instantly message me, doesn't
• 1:21:15
  mean I have died instantly message you, you know?
• 1:21:19
  And that's just it's technology. That's quick, not me.
• 1:21:24
  So yeah. How did you get into animation
• 1:21:28
  and design and everything like that?
• 1:21:29
  Took us a little bit about The beginnings of your journey and
• 1:21:33
  how you got into that. Well, when I was a little kid
• 1:21:36
  before I even knew how to write, I knew how to draw.
• 1:21:39
  So I would draw comic strips and, and I only knew how to
• 1:21:43
  spell really small words, like one of the first Comics ever
• 1:21:46
  made. I remember like this was
• 1:21:48
  Kindergarten maybe before kindergarten, even it was called
• 1:21:51
  burp a lot and it was a guy who burped and destroyed things
• 1:21:56
  whenever he burped. And and I always Is used to
• 1:22:01
  watch cartoons. Like Nickelodeon was always on
• 1:22:04
  love watching cartoons and I loved seeing stories that
• 1:22:08
  manifest from a person's pin, you know, ink pen or pencil or
• 1:22:12
  whatever. And with these comic strips that
• 1:22:16
  I would make, it's just like little stories that hadn't
• 1:22:20
  barely any words to it and it worked great for me as a kid who
• 1:22:24
  didn't know how to use words. And then eventually, as I got
• 1:22:27
  older, my comic started to have more dialogue to the point where
• 1:22:30
  I I'd do some Comics that were like 80% dialogue and just like,
• 1:22:36
  portraits of people and what they were saying and because it
• 1:22:41
  was like conversation, actually, what inspired it was, I was
• 1:22:44
  listening to was playing Vice City Grand Theft Auto.
• 1:22:48
  Yeah. And you got like Chatterbox on
• 1:22:51
  GTA 3 or on Vice City. You had the vcpr and all that
• 1:22:56
  kind of stuff and I loved those wild conversations on these
• 1:23:01
  Radio show. So I was like, I want to make a
• 1:23:03
  comment make that's based around wild conversations on a talk
• 1:23:08
  show. So with that it's easy, your
• 1:23:11
  frame is going to be the host or the speaker and then all their
• 1:23:14
  dialogue. So I would just spend time
• 1:23:17
  drawing these, you know, frames of people and then all the crazy
• 1:23:22
  stuff they were saying and and that's how I got into that.
• 1:23:25
  And then eventually I was like I always knew I wanted to make
• 1:23:27
  cartoons or movies or some type of Like something with a
• 1:23:33
  narrative, you know, or something with the storyline or
• 1:23:36
  a plot and it all started like Motion Pictures started when I
• 1:23:41
  went to school for video production and I learned how to
• 1:23:45
  do, you know, live-action stuff, music videos, things like that.
• 1:23:49
  But like I was saying earlier, it's expensive to get a crew,
• 1:23:52
  it's expensive to get a place to shoot to get the equipment.
• 1:23:56
  It's, you got to have the scheduled every, this lot of
• 1:23:59
  work, whereas I Wake up, power up my computer and start
• 1:24:03
  animating right now and have quite a bit done by the end of
• 1:24:06
  the day and come back tomorrow or next week.
• 1:24:11
  If I feel like, you know, like it's on my time that I can do
• 1:24:14
  this, and once I learned that I didn't need a thousand dollars
• 1:24:19
  to use a program like blender, or I didn't need any money
• 1:24:25
  really to start using any open-source software that was
• 1:24:29
  there for animation or Start making, that's what I was like
• 1:24:32
  this this is where I'm at. This is what I'm going to do for
• 1:24:35
  a while because I don't need to really talk to anyone else to
• 1:24:39
  get a production started and finished.
• 1:24:43
  So um so yeah it all started when I was a kid doing comic
• 1:24:46
  strips and currently it's just the ability and also I can say
• 1:24:52
  things with animations that I can't say in person, you know,
• 1:24:56
  like I used to be on on Facebook years ago political Yeah, I used
• 1:25:01
  to say all kind of political stuff and be like, this is
• 1:25:03
  stupid out of died and I used to say I just have a comment for
• 1:25:07
  everything which is all right, you know, but I one of my
• 1:25:11
  instructors message me one day, like, one of my college
• 1:25:14
  instructors and he was like, man, I agree with a lot of what
• 1:25:17
  you're saying. However, a lot of people don't,
• 1:25:21
  and a lot of you, like, you say, thing in a harsh way, that could
• 1:25:25
  hurt a lot of people's feelings. I've had people in friend me
• 1:25:27
  because of used before and he was like, he was like, you don't
• 1:25:31
  want to, you don't want what you type on social media to dictate
• 1:25:37
  future relationships and past relationships.
• 1:25:39
  And he was like, so, so, you know, just tone it down a bit.
• 1:25:45
  So, at that point, I was like, all right, that makes sense
• 1:25:48
  because I'm just talking on the inner, I'm not trying to change
• 1:25:52
  the world or anything. So I was like, I don't need to
• 1:25:55
  burn any Bridges with statements.
• 1:25:57
  So I started to animate it and animate my Concepts and animate
• 1:26:00
  them. Ideas in a way.
• 1:26:02
  That's not not creating an antagonist or antagonizing, any
• 1:26:08
  specific group of people, but just kind of like getting the
• 1:26:11
  thought out there like, like one I did a short animation about
• 1:26:16
  just how not to let social media affect your real life mood and
• 1:26:20
  it was a little surreal animation.
• 1:26:22
  That was goofy looking kind of creepy, but it got the idea
• 1:26:25
  through. So I was like, I can actually
• 1:26:28
  tell people things in PSA for Or more call, people stupid,
• 1:26:32
  without calling them stupid by using an animation, that doesn't
• 1:26:36
  necessarily Target anyone. So, if you watch this and you
• 1:26:39
  feel stupid, then I guess you fit the bill, but I wasn't
• 1:26:43
  calling a person or is, you know, doing anything like that
• 1:26:46
  specifically? So, yeah, with animations, you
• 1:26:50
  just have The ability to take what you think and what you
• 1:26:54
  feel, and what you imagined and put it into a realm.
• 1:26:58
  That is not reality at all, but connect with people's reality
• 1:27:03
  through it, What are some of your favorite projects that
• 1:27:07
  you've worked on over the years recently, I did a music video
• 1:27:12
  for a friend in Germany, who's a musician.
• 1:27:15
  It was called the song was called bent.
• 1:27:18
  So I animated the music video for that and it was great
• 1:27:22
  because I don't do a lot of music videos with animation.
• 1:27:26
  I want to do more but I haven't done a lot lately.
• 1:27:29
  I've done maybe like 3 and and it was a lot of fun when He was
• 1:27:35
  just like here's this song, make something like he had no real
• 1:27:40
  thank director anything. He's just like make something.
• 1:27:43
  So I was able to 3D animate with some 2D Incorporated in it you
• 1:27:48
  know a storyline based on the song in the rough like a weird
• 1:27:51
  way and I love when I just had the creative freedom to just be
• 1:27:55
  like yeah I'll make something cool.
• 1:27:57
  You won't regret it and you'll love what comes from it.
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  So that was really fun. One, it's going to ask actually
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  about Because like, for instance, I've just paid for
• 1:28:09
  some designs for this series that I'm doing on patreon.
• 1:28:12
  Where is the different show that I do school life with Christian
• 1:28:14
  Reeve? You can get it at patreon.com,
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  slash question read. Anyway, I basically said to the
• 1:28:20
  artist same as I did work for the podcast designs like hey
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  yeah, here's a rough idea of what I want, but up to you, you
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  decide and I'll let you know, I trust your judgment and I said
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  that to him again this time and I wondered like as an artist
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  like, is it Jim really better to have more creative freedom.
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  Was it better to have a more structured plan?
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  I mean, it's such a kitty. It depends, man.
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  I prefer to have creative freedom because I have no
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  shortage of ideas. Like, I've always got new ideas,
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  I listen to a song and start seeing the video on my head so I
• 1:28:53
  and I trust my mind. So I trust that concept that I
• 1:28:56
  have in my head a lot but um, sometimes like for especially
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  corporate stuff or or a commercial stuff, I want.
• 1:29:05
  Able to tell me straight up, like what do you not want?
• 1:29:07
  Because I do all this work and you're like, I don't like it.
• 1:29:10
  Then I'm going to get mad. So like set up some boundaries,
• 1:29:15
  give me an idea, so I can create something that you're gonna like
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  and that's not completely from my weird world because it can
• 1:29:23
  get weird in there, you know. So yeah.
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  If it's something that the person really does have an idea
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  what they're looking for. Then I want them to tell me that
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  idea because I'm I'm probably not going to have the same idea
• 1:29:38
  so long. Yeah.
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  But when it's something like a music video and they're just
• 1:29:42
  like, go for it. That's the best.
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  Because yeah, I can just go for it and they'll like it at the
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  end. What would you like your legacy
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  to be? Right.
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  Think about that a lot actually. I'm not, I'm not really sure
• 1:29:57
  yet. Um, want to write some books.
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  Yeah, yeah. I want to have a movie out
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  there. Something I got a couple little
• 1:30:05
  ideas for movies. I really think I wanted to be in
• 1:30:09
  the realm of movies and animations and and I'm slowly
• 1:30:15
  transitioning into focusing on that more.
• 1:30:18
  So then just stand alone. Artwork, I have no idea how I
• 1:30:21
  ended up doing the gallery. Art thing.
• 1:30:23
  I've I wanted to be an artist in the Gatling with art galleries
• 1:30:27
  and doing art shows and stuff like that.
• 1:30:29
  But that's what I've been doing for.
• 1:30:31
  Probably the last decade. It's just like art shows and
• 1:30:36
  stuff and Galleries and it's cool but it's weird man like you
• 1:30:40
  don't really know strange to just yeah it's not my thing but
• 1:30:45
  I've always wanted to create something just like a cartoon
• 1:30:49
  like South Park or something that.
• 1:30:50
  Yeah it's serious but not serious.
• 1:30:54
  It's funny and I've wanted to do movies for a minute to so that's
• 1:31:00
  really what I want to focus on next 0 and music music.
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  I've been doing music so long that I don't even look at it
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  like like I used to, I just kind of like, I'll score my videos or
• 1:31:12
  do a song every now and then. But I used to really want to be
• 1:31:16
  known for music but that's it's a heartbreaking Road itself.
• 1:31:25
  I was trying to a musician friend to my shout out to do so,
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  I did. And like I said, I've been
• 1:31:31
  there, like, I one point in my life, wanted to be a
• 1:31:33
  professional easier musician, and I pursued that dream and,
• 1:31:36
  you know, we nearly got there at one point, but years, you know,
• 1:31:40
  same as you broken. Heart things happened, things
• 1:31:42
  change. And now I'm pursuing like acting
• 1:31:45
  voice acting podcast in a range of different things, but I look
• 1:31:50
  at that dream. And this friend of mine Jules,
• 1:31:53
  he's trying to encourage me to record music.
• 1:31:56
  And I've got I write music. I have done for the last couple
• 1:31:59
  of years, I love performing, but I'm just, I don't have the same
• 1:32:02
  enthusiasm and motivation that I did before, like, I see it same
• 1:32:06
  as you like all this is useful for things.
• 1:32:08
  This is fun. I love entertaining my
• 1:32:10
  livestream Audience by Community online with it and stuff.
• 1:32:13
  And I would like to get some records out there, but I don't
• 1:32:17
  really want to be a full-time musician.
• 1:32:18
  I just, yeah, my heart's not in it and I just feel like if your
• 1:32:22
  heart's not in it, then don't bother.
• 1:32:24
  Yeah yeah, it's like once upon a time I was down with you know,
• 1:32:28
  driving across the state or to another state or something do a
• 1:32:32
  show crash on the floor, make 20 bucks and you know it's a
• 1:32:36
  success for me anymore. Man.
• 1:32:39
  I don't want to do all that in you know only sometimes
• 1:32:44
  sometimes I'm in the mood but yeah.
• 1:32:46
  Hey that's I can't full-time stage 2 stage sleeping on floors
• 1:32:52
  and sofas. And I just a lot of work with
• 1:32:55
  music and music. Industry is one of those
• 1:32:58
  industries that can understand what's happening with AI and
• 1:33:02
  everything like that now because I feel like it's artificially
• 1:33:05
  funded in a way that, you know, the commercial music industry.
• 1:33:09
  That's why they're charging so much for tickets now because no
• 1:33:12
  one's buying music and in there, it's hard for them to pretend
• 1:33:17
  that people are. It's hard for a lot of these
• 1:33:19
  people to pretend that money's just pouring in when they know
• 1:33:23
  it's not. So they After, you know, do
• 1:33:26
  movies and acting and cameos and giant concert tours that are
• 1:33:32
  super expensive and make people play their songs in the back of
• 1:33:37
  their Tick, Tock videos and Instagram Rios and things like
• 1:33:41
  that. But I don't want to have to
• 1:33:45
  worry about any of that. Actually, I used to own a record
• 1:33:51
  label a net label called kaleidoscopic Label and, you
• 1:33:55
  know, we had a bunch of shows and had quite a few artists and
• 1:34:00
  eventually it got to where people are like, all right?
• 1:34:03
  So how do we actually start making money and that out of
• 1:34:06
  that? And I'm like good question
• 1:34:08
  because, you know, the money we do make from these shows don't
• 1:34:12
  really cover anything, you know? It we kind of break even and
• 1:34:15
  that's it. And we could have kept going,
• 1:34:19
  but I was just like, now I want to focus on some other stuff.
• 1:34:23
  I get in. I get it.
• 1:34:24
  Yeah I think just over time your goals and priorities change and
• 1:34:30
  what makes sense in one moment doesn't necessarily make sense
• 1:34:33
  in another. Like, for me I discovered acting
• 1:34:35
  after about three or four years ago and it clicked, I was like,
• 1:34:39
  this is what I need to be doing this and entertaining and other
• 1:34:43
  things have developed, like the podcast.
• 1:34:45
  I always wanted to do a show, but it really know what the
• 1:34:47
  point of it was fast. Forward, three years later and
• 1:34:50
  it's like now there's a particular Goal in mind.
• 1:34:53
  There's, there's, you know, I'm still kind of trying to roughly
• 1:34:56
  figure out a way to Market this, but essentially it's like
• 1:35:00
  sharing life stories talking about big topics.
• 1:35:02
  You know, having those good conversations and discussions
• 1:35:06
  and just try to put something out there that will actually be
• 1:35:09
  interesting to people or in some way.
• 1:35:11
  Engaging, you know, and it's easier said than done.
• 1:35:15
  You see, like a lot of podcasts out there.
• 1:35:17
  And it's, yeah, I came across one the other day and I was
• 1:35:19
  sitting there and I was like, what actually makes a good
• 1:35:23
  Podcast. It's a good question because
• 1:35:25
  it's yeah, it's relative I'm sure people listening to my show
• 1:35:28
  sometimes and think this is dollars ass but then there's
• 1:35:30
  other people that tell me that it's good and they love it and
• 1:35:32
  they keep this thing watching and thank you but like you know,
• 1:35:37
  it is subjective. It really is.
• 1:35:41
  Yeah, it's about basically creating a brand from yourself.
• 1:35:48
  Now you know that's another thing I think about a lot too is
• 1:35:51
  just Craig Blackmore, which isn't my real name but it has
• 1:35:57
  been since I was seventeen. Like that's just people who have
• 1:36:01
  known me for a long time and can't tell you what my actual
• 1:36:05
  name is. And it wasn't actually, I didn't
• 1:36:09
  do that. Someone started calling me.
• 1:36:11
  Craig, Craig is a part of my name but they they started
• 1:36:15
  calling me Craig in like it wasn't right because my last
• 1:36:20
  name is Craig But the teacher in High school started calling me
• 1:36:24
  Craig because the attendance sheets are last name.
• 1:36:27
  First name and Craig is a lot like a first name or last name.
• 1:36:31
  So, the teacher would make a mistake in call me Craig during
• 1:36:34
  attendance and he didn't correct them.
• 1:36:39
  Nah, after a while, I was like, whatever.
• 1:36:40
  And then the class started calling me Craig.
• 1:36:43
  So it was really easy to go by that name because everyone
• 1:36:47
  already started calling me that so I just made up a last name,
• 1:36:51
  okay, to put with it. I've had it ever since like, I
• 1:36:54
  used to rap back then and I would talk about my name and
• 1:36:57
  songs and everything and ever since then I've had that name
• 1:37:01
  and it just kind of stuck. So, now I'm working on refining
• 1:37:06
  that character to be more of like, when you think of Snoop
• 1:37:11
  Dogg, right? Snoop Dogg's.
• 1:37:13
  Been in movies, has been a shows and he's never acted, like he's
• 1:37:16
  always himself, often, everything he's in, right?
• 1:37:18
  He's just the same guy. So I'm trying to refine my My
• 1:37:23
  character to be just like my person to, you know, a version
• 1:37:29
  of myself to where it's like Craig Blackmore's doing this.
• 1:37:32
  So you watch it because your dad is character, you know?
• 1:37:37
  So that's kind of another thing don't like, I get what you mean?
• 1:37:40
  I get what you mean. I mean like Christian Reeve is
• 1:37:43
  is my real name. But at the same time I thought a
• 1:37:45
  lot about this. Like when I do a podcast when I
• 1:37:48
  do a live stream, whatever that is to a certain degree, I
• 1:37:53
  Performance. It's you are presenting or you
• 1:37:56
  are hosting or something like that.
• 1:38:00
  I mean it's you're not like that in general conversation like
• 1:38:03
  there will be plenty. Like I've always tried to make
• 1:38:06
  sure it's authentic as possible and not like fake or and
• 1:38:10
  pretended to be something because I just can't this just
• 1:38:12
  tiring to do that. So you will see a lot of me in
• 1:38:16
  this but at the same time when the camera is off like I relax.
• 1:38:20
  I'm a lot more calm or and may be quiet.
• 1:38:23
  Etre and you know, it's a bit different.
• 1:38:25
  Yeah, you know, it's interesting like this idea of creating a
• 1:38:29
  character almost. I mean I've seen people do it
• 1:38:31
  and this is what made me decide not to do actual character
• 1:38:36
  pretending to do something, because you got to play that
• 1:38:39
  person 24/7. And if you're out walking about
• 1:38:43
  and you become famous and people happen to know you, that could
• 1:38:46
  be a problem because you got play that character 24/7.
• 1:38:49
  And I just don't know that I'd have the energy to do that,
• 1:38:52
  right? Right.
• 1:38:54
  Fanny way as we do things to a close for today.
• 1:38:57
  Do you have any upcoming projects or some final thoughts
• 1:39:00
  that you'd like to share with our listeners?
• 1:39:03
  Let's see upcoming projects, nothing too major.
• 1:39:07
  I'm working on a website cotton metaverse Messiah.
• 1:39:10
  That is testing to help people kind of understand the internet
• 1:39:15
  and surviving on the internet in this as it shifts into this AI
• 1:39:20
  world, this perception. A plating world and just a place
• 1:39:26
  where people can kind of go and understand thing, basic things
• 1:39:29
  like malware and Internet safety.
• 1:39:31
  Okay. But at the same time, it's to
• 1:39:34
  highlight digital art because a lot of times, a lot with a, I
• 1:39:38
  specifically, there's a lot of places that have strict no way.
• 1:39:41
  I are rules, and no way I are too loud.
• 1:39:43
  So I kind of want to create a place where good AI art can be
• 1:39:47
  highlighted and the process to create that can exist.
• 1:39:52
  And Glitch art or any of these other cool digital art styles
• 1:39:57
  can be highlighted, and that's what metaverse Messiah is going
• 1:40:00
  to be. And then also, I'm working on
• 1:40:03
  person. 23. Now this is something that takes
• 1:40:06
  a little taking some time to build, but person 23 will
• 1:40:09
  actually be the cartoon that I come out with.
• 1:40:12
  Oh cool. But first it's going to start as
• 1:40:15
  like short animations, comic strips characters and building
• 1:40:21
  the world of personal 1023, like kind of the lore behind the
• 1:40:25
  world, so that is going to appear on my web site soon,
• 1:40:29
  homepage person, 23, the world of 23 and odd kind of stuff.
• 1:40:33
  And, you know, the main character 23 is Loosely based
• 1:40:36
  off of myself but he's not me. Yeah.
• 1:40:43
  But yeah. So I'm working on that too.
• 1:40:46
  And then just, you know, some random animations here and
• 1:40:49
  they're getting to some film festivals potentially but But
• 1:40:53
  nothing worthy of announcement yet.
• 1:40:57
  Yeah, so watch this. Watch this face man.
• 1:41:01
  Big things to come - on the things.
• 1:41:04
  I wish you the very best of that.
• 1:41:05
  You're very talented and interested in human beings, but
• 1:41:08
  actually pleasure to have you on this show and I thank you so
• 1:41:11
  much, man. Appreciate it.
• 1:41:12
  Yeah, thanks for having this was great.
• 1:41:14
  I'm glad to hear that, man. I'm glad you had a good time.
• 1:41:17
  Thanks for being my first guests of the year and to all my
• 1:41:20
  listeners of the Christian re podcast I hope You enjoyed this
• 1:41:23
  show? Let me know if there's any
• 1:41:25
  particular topics. You'd like to hear in the
• 1:41:27
  future. Let me know if there's any
• 1:41:28
  particular guest. She like to see on the show.
• 1:41:30
  As always be safe. Be well, and I'll see you in the
• 1:41:33
  next one.