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AI Swallows Our Wildness: Why It Can't Live on Echoes Alone
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The AI Optimist cuts through the usual AI noise connecting creators and tech to work together instead of fighting.
I'm a Creative AI Strategist who helps creators and businesses co-create with AI, turning humble machines into powerful creative partners.
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- Creative Machines and Human Creativity: Building AI that Makes Us More Creative Instead of Replacing Us · 23 min · Kausi 3 Jakso 106Seeing that tall black and brown piano in the background before our interview, I sense tradition of human creativity meeting AI. This is about us. When Maya Ackerman’s family…
- Breaking the $4/Min Barrier: How AI Pays $120 for Raw Video and $30 for another? · 17 minWhen Hollywood’s Catalog Isn’t Enough and Might Need AI Licensing Lionsgate thought they had this figured out. The studio that owns John Wick, Twilight, and The Hunger Games…
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- The Beginning is Near - The AI Bubble Finally Burst and that's the Best Thing! · 19 min · Kausi 3 Jakso 103The AI Bubble Finally Burst - And It's the Best Thing That Ever Happened Introduction: When the Hot Air Finally Escaped Picture this: TechCrunch Disrupt 2024, and the first sign…
- Humble Creative Machines: Creating AI to Elevate You (Instead of Replacing You) · 21 min · Kausi 2 Jakso 102As AI Hype dissolves into mainstream cringe, it’s easy to forget that the gems are found below the surface jargon and PR blather. Like Maya Ackerman, founder and CEO of WaveAI…
- Zero Sum AI Game? Everyone Loses When Artists vs Engineers Make AI Dumber · 10 min · Kausi 2 Jakso 101When Heart Meets Code: Rediscovering Creativity in the Age of AI Explain AI to me like I’m a 5-year-old, she said. I was doing the research, looking at different AI hot takes…
- Fear and Loathing in the Cult of AI: 3 Steps to Waking from the Subtle Matrix · 16 min · Kausi 2 Jakso 100We were somewhere around Redwood City on the edge of the metaverse when the drugs began to take hold. Not the good kind of drugs. The algorithmic kind. The kind making you…
- Trump Kills AI Copyright Rules: How Creators Thrive NOT Survive Now · 15 min · Kausi 2 Jakso 99We’re playing AI Copyright bingo and the only winners so far, are Big Tech….at least according to President Trump. Anything you post or create is now fair game for AI in the…
- Free AI Content is Over: License or Die · 21 min · Kausi 2 Jakso 98For two years, I've documented the AI content wars from every angle - court cases, licensing deals, developers' reasons for taking content without permission or payment, and the…
- The AI Emperor Has No Code: When $1.5B Startups Fake AI and Governments Silence Creators · 12 min · Kausi 2 Jakso 97Once upon a time, in a land not so far away, there lived an Emperor who loved new technology more than anything else in the world. One day, two groups of ambitious alchemists…
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- The Most Pro-AI Company You've Never Heard Of Is Fighting For Creator Licensing (And Why Big Tech Worries) · 15 minWhile everyone's distracted by OpenAI hiring Jony Ive to design the future of AI hardware, the real story happened 2 weeks ago, at 5pm on a Friday. The US Copyright Office drops…
- A 48-Hour AI Copyright Heist: The USCO Bombshell Report & The Perlmutter Purge · 15 min · Kausi 2 Jakso 93I'll never forget the morning of Friday, May 9th - maybe the most “brazen” power move I've seen in the AI vs. creators battle yet. A bombshell copyright report drops, standing up…







