🤖 Trends #0057 — AI-Generated Content

Why It Matters

AI-generated content is being used for good and evil.

To create conflict, incite violence and deceive.

To entertain, design and increase productivity.

AI is amoral. It amplifies intent.

Problem

Humans are predictably irrational. We are built to replicate. Not to reason.

Solution

AI-generated content takes us from the era of limited to infinite leverage.
Making connections that we miss, learning faster and improving over time.

Players

Images

DALL-E - Create images from text
Designs.ai - Create logos
This Person Does Not Exist - Generate faces

Voice

Overdub - Clone voices
Replika - An AI companion
Replica - AI voice actors

Video

Rosebud AI - Create virtual characters
Alethea - AI-generated avatars
Synthesia - Create videos without actors
Reface - Create face swap videos

Text

GPT-3 - An advanced language model
IdeasAI - AI-generated startup ideas
Shortly - Complete your thoughts
Frase.io - Create content briefs and answer questions

Predictions

Production costs will drop. Watch David Beckham "speak" nine languages.
Actors and artists will perform posthumously. New songs and films can be made with training data. "Immortality" boosts the value of estates as alternative assets.
Tools like Synthesia will lead to more million-dollar, one-person businesses. The need to master (or understand) underlying technologies is reduced. Leading to smaller firms.
Pirated personalities will be used to endorse products, narrate books and more.

Opportunities

Sell AI-assisted services. Or copy Nikolay Ironov. An AI designer that made $1,000+ per logo.
Scale yourself. Record your voice, face or writing style. Be everywhere.
- Read text in your voice.
- Put yourself in movies.
- Let AI write in your style.
Be a fast follower to a fragmented market. Writesonic, Conversion.ai, Snazzy AI, Copysmith, Copy.ai, Headlime and more are commercializing GPT-3 for copywriting.
Sell algorithmic art. Beeple sold a piece for $69,346,250. CryptoPunks have sold for more than $180,000,000. The latter is from Larva Labs.

Key Lessons

Media is being democratized. If no-code makes you a developer. AI-generated content makes you a producer.
Code, low-code and no-code give you limited leverage. They require direction. AI-generated content gives you unlimited leverage.
Humans are predictably irrational. For good reason. Evolution doesn't reward rationality. It rewards replication. Irrationality isn't surprising. It's expected.

Haters

"Photoshop has been around for years. So what?"
Doctored images fool us. Higher-fidelity fakes are more convincing.

"People's likenesses will be abused."
That's the path we're on. Create to combat it. What's the blue check version of video? Will we "NFTfy" everything to prove authenticity?

"What about biases in AI?"
Twitter took Tay.ai from chill to racist in one day. AI is a sponge for society's ills.

"Deep fake detection algorithms will protect us."
Deep fakes will improve with detection efforts. GANs model an arms race. Sensity, a deep fake detection platform, is a test layer. Pass and it's ready to release.

Related Reports

Personal Brands - Virtual influencers are discussed here.
Million-Dollar, One-Person Businesses - AI-generated content speeds up the division of labor and leverage.
NFTs - CryptoPunks and CryptoKitties are algorithmically-generated empires.