HeyJaredAI for Creativity - Inspiring Designs & Critical Reflections
A journal on creativity and design with AI beyond tools and hype. Let's stay human!
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Trust me, I am lying (opens the original)
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To be honest, I am concerned about elections.Not so much about the Berlin election on Sept 20 per se, but about the directions in which opinions are moving. Extreme right, or extreme left... and about how easily we seem to be manipulated.I hear my parents turning in their graves. They lived through World War II as kids. They would be terrified by what the far right is saying, claiming, and openly planning.“Make Germany Great Again.”Really?I had planned to use this phrase in a satirical AI music
AI Has No Skin in the Game (opens the original)
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I am writing an article for an AI design conference with “Trust” as the theme, so I am excited to share some initial thoughts with you.First of all, there are many new people here, so welcome.Some of you may have arrived through my AI films and images. Others know me through workshops, design education, or my research into how designers learn to work with GenAI. I have spent a large part of the past few years making things with AI, teaching it, becoming excited by it, getting mega frustrated, an
Welcome to IDIOCRAZY - My new video in the works (opens the original)
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I am working on a new music video called IDIOCRAZY. It is surreal, theatrical, funny, and uncomfortable.Politicians, executives, and polished talking heads march through a pink-and-black world carrying banners that read “Act First, Think Later.” Liars on thrones wear golden crowns. Fear is daily bread. People drink champagne while their ship sinks.The images may be absurd, but the world is close to our current Zeitgeist, and not all that fictional. We are living through strange times, with a lot
A Film Made Backwards (opens the original)
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It is actually difficult to make a film with AI. For my experimental short film “One with Nature”, here is a bit of my process to either inspire or frighten you.First, I began creating images in Midjourney. Then I used those images as starting frames for video generation. Quite quickly, I had a row of strange clips that were fun but made no sense. My interest was to visualize how nature is not separate, inspired by Alan Watts, The Tao of Philosophy, and the idea of nothing lasts... The topic of
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