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The New Muse: Hobbyists and AI

2024/8/7
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Fraser: 我认为保持用户的创作流畅性至关重要。AI工具应该能够帮助用户保持这种流畅性,并提供必要的支持和资源,以确保他们能够持续进行创作。 此外,我还认为,AI工具应该能够帮助用户发展自己的审美和品味。对于业余爱好者来说,他们可能仍在探索自己的创作风格和方向,因此AI工具应该能够提供相应的指导和帮助,而不是简单地提供一些预设的模板或样式。 最后,我认为,为业余爱好者构建一个积极向上的社区非常重要。在这个社区中,用户可以互相交流学习,分享经验,并获得彼此的支持和鼓励。 Nabil: 我认为,AI工具的市场潜力远不止于专业人士和准专业人士。事实上,业余爱好者市场是一个巨大的、尚未被充分开发的市场。Midjourney就是一个很好的例子,它成功地吸引了大量的业余爱好者用户,并帮助他们实现了创作的梦想。 Midjourney的成功之处在于,它专注于满足业余爱好者的需求,而不是简单地追求商业利益。它提供了一个易于上手、难于精通的创作平台,并构建了一个积极向上的社区,让用户能够互相交流学习,分享经验。 我认为,AI工具应该能够帮助用户降低创作门槛,并保持创作的流畅性。同时,AI工具也应该能够帮助用户发展自己的审美和品味,并提供必要的指导和帮助。 最后,我认为,AI工具应该能够帮助用户找到创作的乐趣,并从中获得满足感。创作本身就是一件令人快乐的事情,AI工具应该能够帮助用户更好地享受这个过程。

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The discussion starts by highlighting the importance of maintaining creative flow in creative endeavors and how AI can facilitate this process, especially for hobbyists who are still developing their taste and style. The role of community building among like-minded peers is also emphasized.
  • AI's role in maintaining creative flow
  • Community building for hobbyists
  • Developing personal taste

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How would you design an AI product differently for a hobbyist vs prosumer vs professional? Using MidJourney as a case study in the passion economy, they delve into how AI tools can help build communities and support semi-professional creators. They explore how these tools can democratize creativity, the role of art vs craft, the role of grit in skill building, cheating vs copiloting, the missing middle of the creative markets, and more. They also touch on the broader implications of AI in different creative fields from music, writing and podcasts. It's an exploration of how AI can help users maintain creative flow and the underserved opportunity for AI to help unleash the hobbyist. 

00:00 Intro

00:52 AI in Creative Endeavors

01:58 Market Expansion

03:01 The underexplored customer in AI

08:23 Finding other AI hobbiest opportunities

11:31 If they AI made it, are we building skill?

13:36 Difference between art and craft

14:40 Homework Helpers vs Writing Copilots

16:07 Hobbiests are not quite the creator economy

17:47 Product for hobbists

21:03 The missing middle of creative markets

26:42 AI's potential in the education of craft

  • (00:00) - Intro

  • (00:52) - AI in Creative Endeavors

  • (02:00) - Market Expansion

  • (03:02) - The underexplored customer in AI

  • (08:25) - Finding other AI hobbiest opportunities

  • (11:32) - If they AI made it, are we building skill?

  • (13:38) - Difference between art and craft

  • (14:42) - Homework Helpers vs Writing Copilots

  • (16:09) - Hobbiests are not quite the creator economy

  • (17:49) - Product for hobbists

  • (21:04) - The missing middle of creative markets

  • (26:44) - AI's potential in the education of craft