Creativity and AI w/@Kabarza

I don't know about you, but I've never felt like such a kid in a candy store and I just want to spend all my money because I haven't felt this excited and inspired for such a long time. I describe myself as like a technical creative. I love like being creative and stuff like that. I don't necessarily think I'm good at it, but I just love self-expression and like doing lots of different things. I finally feel like I'm sat in a world where I had VO, if I had flow and things like that. If I can literally just I mean I could procrastinate for a long time, but I can I can do things that I've always always wanted to do. Unfortunately, it just all costs a lot of money. Yeah. Compute. The last time I felt like this was when I, you know, when I'm when I'm in, when I was younger, I used to play in bands and stuff like that, but like I do used to buy all the stuff like, oh, or at least wanted to buy all the stuff. It's like, oh, that can that can help me do this and that can help me do that. I'm not trying to use it to fill a hole. I'm I'm trying to use it to to f like fulfill like these fantasies and just have fun with it. And I'm I'm just I feel like we're there and like yeah, given the opportunity, I could spend an awful lot of money. Maybe it is like the good old uh flash days where you could like build anything for the web. Yeah, I'm actually not uh old enough to remember like I I definitely remember Flash on websites but I never built using flash and it feels like that for me just being inside of cursor as as you by now know I I choose like the most default app and I stick with it. So I have cursor and chat GPG. That's it. I mean I have other stuff but I 99% of the time just use these basics and I do feel the same way the way you do and as I told you earlier in our chat I'm building this component library and I'm I feel a little bit of anxiety because AI is coming and does it mean like my components that I'm building are not as valuable because it's becoming so much easier for people to just prompt something and build something which is very powerful but at the same time I feel and I share your excitement because I feel like okay with AI I can build more and bigger and complex things that I could never build before and now I can like at least start with it and I find myself getting lost completely in the making of these things and adding details and and yeah you know when an idea comes to my mind I don't have to think how to write it the code for it. I just think oh what if that could transition into that and like just type it in cuz I mean you know we we're talking about web stuff but I you know we we both make videos we both create things and like it's not just that like um I like creating photos of myself like I've got a model trained on my face I can I can just go and generate an image and I use that for my thumbnail for yesterday's video and it looks Yeah, I saw that. I was like, I know this guy, but I don't know this guy. Nah. But to be fair though, like I don't I I think that you've seen me kind of face to face in the flesh. And many like I remember someone sending me um a tweet once or something and they were like, "This guy is not this guy." And it's it's a it's two photos of me and it it totally is. And like no one really knows what you look like anyway. And you can look so different in so many different photos. So like I just use that to my advantage. But I just like, you know, I've got some crazy photos of me just like as clowns and just doing weird stuff and like anyway, I just feel like this creativity is unleashed and you don't have to worry about the tool is no longer in the way. You don't have to learn a tool to accomplish what's in your mind. All right. So, this is two years ago. This is two years ago. Oh my god. And we were thinking like we thought that we'll never get there. But where are we now? Like actually. So the next uh video, this is bonkers. This is like unbelievable. Look at his hands, the movement. Like I mean, you have to remember these are choice these are choice shots. So I have seen I've seen some of them where it's just a bit um yeah, dragons are disappearing and things like that. But yeah, where are we now? Well, two years ago again, Will Smith today, here we are and in two years, Hollywood might be actually in danger like Yeah. movie making and it's and it's like amazing time to be alive. Uh, as you said, we we do make videos and I'm coming from a video background. I actually owned a studio and like a small photo and video studio and I I know like cameras like ins and out of cameras and I I know how like difficult it can be but it's very interesting and my mind is still like very much in this video creation area like half of the the videos that I watch like the short videos that I watch are like beautifully done like creative videos on Instagram and whatnot. And I always think about like ways that you could like showcase something. And with this tool, maybe not yet, but very soon you will be able to like your own promo video for a tool. It can be like a short like twominut video that is like that feels like very high production. something that companies had to spend potentially like millions on to get that you know video but now you can do it in an afternoon. I mean like we need to draw a line somewhere because if a company is able to spend at one point spend millions and now they're doing it through this. I would argue that these tools are not right for those sorts of people. we go back to the discussion we had about workforce and like if you're doing everything with AI then there's no need to hire anyone and then you've just you're you're that's the downfall of society then but I I know what you're saying like it's it's just an amazing time to be alive you know it's it's that somebody without equipment can produce these videos very soon and with how good these videos are especially if you watch them with uh sound that the lip syncing is so good. It makes me think like if we will do this in two years or like will we or will we I don't know what it all means. It's very it's becoming very fuzzy because if that's the rate of progress from Will Smith to this and we can already give all the links that we have in notion to an AI tool and say hey make a podcast just use Google podcast uh tool whatever it's called like make a podcast with our uh voice and then take our faces and create this what is the point of making this then in the first place? What is the point of consuming this? What does even time like how how does it even matter? Like who will consume this anyway if it's that easy to create and if it's that available? I'm not sure. Will we be all uh on the beach with our friends? Well, I mean this this starts the age-old debate of like creativity and in fact it makes it more clear where I should what I should apply AI to and where I should be like this needs my face. I don't want to I I want to be creating um a podcast. I don't want to replace myself with uh with an AI, you know, as much as it could. But um I would put together a fun like creative advert or something like that with it. You know, I think we just need to be mindful that there needs to be a line and how can you use AI creatively and interestingly where we're just not rehashing the same old crap all the time? It's um yeah. Do you listen to any AI generated music? No, but I I I wrote I wrote an album once of AI generated music and it was very fun. Um, no, I would never do that. I would never do that. I did listen I still do actually listen to one short piece of music AI generated in my mother tongue. Uh, and it's like surprisingly good. It's surprisingly good. But the person who generated this, he he took an old poem and and he he changed it a little bit and then made like two variations of that uh with AI. And this Yeah, it's it's pretty good. It's a not pretty good, it's actually good. But I if everybody can generate this I mean everybody can write but you don't just go out and read anything right face to face human interaction will become more and more important I definitely think so and as creatives I I just think that we we will it will we'll know when our creativity is being removed from us or you know there I I still have that hunger to create and This has just given me a leg up on my creativity. I don't know if this is like the best example or not. Honestly, I I I get the idea, but look, we are chatting through this medium. So, in a way, we are not in a way we are not face to face. In a way, this is not exactly like replacing real human connection. I still want to go out and meet people. And if you were close, we would maybe do this live and then go out and get a beer, right? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, right. Don't know about that. I have been I have been thinking we should totally try and organize like a live version of this as well. Like uh Yeah, definitely. Guys, leave us some super chats. Uh subscribe to my Patreon. Buy Kaza's course and we will make it happen. We'll make it happen in person weekly things. Uh, but right now we can't justify it. True, true. That would be awesome with actual beer. This discussion was filmed as part of a larger discussion over on my new show, Command AI, which is we stream every single week. We try and do it on Friday, but it kind of changes from time to time. So, tune in to us later this