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DurwinBurger King gave candy to a worker has worked for more than 20 years.
The Whopper, which was first introduced in 1957, was a quarter-pound, oversized burger on a vast five-inch bun that cost a reasonable 29 cents.Large corporations can be cruel and uncaring. They often claim to care about their employees, but sometimes the reality can be quite different. This is the story of Kevin Ford, a cook and cashier at Burger King who had worked tirelessly for over two decades. To celebrate his remarkable feat of never taking a sick day, Burger King decided to shower him ...
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To be honest, the graphics were quite captivating for AI generated art.
It used to take months (even years) to create, write and publish a children’s book.
Now you can do it over a weekend.
Ammaar Reshi, a design manager at Brex, spent a weekend to create a children’s book using generative AI tools.
The story is about a little girl named Alice who wants to learn about the world of tech with the help of a robot named Sparkle.
Thing is, the graphics are quite compelling and the speed of execution, using powerful tools like ChatGPT (for the copy) and Midjourney (for the graphics), is really astounding.
Again, its a children’s book, so don’t be fussing over the plot or characters much.
He literally took less than 72 hours from ideation to publishing his book on Amazon.
Not bad for a weekend project, creating a children’s book using generative AI tech.
More than 100+ of his books have been bought and gifted, all within days of launching.
This is 2023 and the wonders of technology has allowed creators to blossom and exponentiate like never before.
In case you thought it was simple to use AI, it wasn’t.
“He spent hours tweaking the prompts given to Midjourney, estimating that he rejected “hundreds” of illustrations in order to get the 13 that fill the 14-page book. “I almost gave up because I was like, I don’t know if it’s possible, but then I just pushed through at the end,” he said.”
Turns out, even when there are powerful generative AI tools at our disposal, we still need to learn how to effectively use them.
There is also the element of trial and error, lots of patience and a dose of luck.
Machines and AI and not infallible.
As the saying goes, garbage in, garbage out.
The tools are only as good as you make them to be and what data and input you provide.
AI isn’t infalliable. People on Twitter went to point out just how many errors there were with some of the artwork.
You have to read through every output and discern what is good or bad.
You have to filter out the noise and pick out the diamonds in the mountain of dirt.
You have to be extremely thoughtful in what exactly you want, while balancing the need to explore and let the AI suggest possibilities to you.
It really isn’t that easy or fun for that matter.
You have to really want it.
Of course there will be naysayers and critics.
The backlash was apparent and vicious.
“One critic is Anupa Roper, a children’s book author based in the UK, who said she had a “sinking feeling in the pit of [her] stomach,” when she saw Reshi’s tweet. “I’m thinking, Is it really that easy to create something that I had to pour my heart and soul into?” Roper said.”
Ammaar said he received death threats and abuse.
The links to his ebooks are no longer up.
Thoughts swirling in my head.
Is it wrong?
What exactly is so wrong about what he did?
Was it the fact that he used a tool and outsourced creativity to a software?
Was it the making money and profiting part that made it feel wrong?
Should we be allowed to make money from AI generated work?
Should we be allowed to outsource human creativity?
If we do that, and machines and AI are allowed to create, is it still called creativity?
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Is it ok to make money from AI generated work?
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#startups #business #startupx #entrepreneurship #hustle #eth #btc #chatgpt #NFT #weekendproject #meme #aigeneratedart #midjourney #childrenbook #weekendproject #sparkle #AItech #generativeai
To be honest, the graphics were quite captivating for AI generated art.
It used to take months (even years) to create, write and publish a children’s book.
Now you can do it over a weekend.
Ammaar Reshi, a design manager at Brex, spent a weekend to create a children’s book using generative AI tools.
The story is about a little girl named Alice who wants to learn about the world of tech with the help of a robot named Sparkle.
Thing is, the graphics are quite compelling and the speed of execution, using powerful tools like ChatGPT (for the copy) and Midjourney (for the graphics), is really astounding.
Again, its a children’s book, so don’t be fussing over the plot or characters much.
He literally took less than 72 hours from ideation to publishing his book on Amazon.
Not bad for a weekend project, creating a children’s book using generative AI tech.
More than 100+ of his books have been bought and gifted, all within days of launching.
This is 2023 and the wonders of technology has allowed creators to blossom and exponentiate like never before.
In case you thought it was simple to use AI, it wasn’t.
“He spent hours tweaking the prompts given to Midjourney, estimating that he rejected “hundreds” of illustrations in order to get the 13 that fill the 14-page book. “I almost gave up because I was like, I don’t know if it’s possible, but then I just pushed through at the end,” he said.”
Turns out, even when there are powerful generative AI tools at our disposal, we still need to learn how to effectively use them.
There is also the element of trial and error, lots of patience and a dose of luck.
Machines and AI and not infallible.
As the saying goes, garbage in, garbage out.
The tools are only as good as you make them to be and what data and input you provide.
AI isn’t infalliable. People on Twitter went to point out just how many errors there were with some of the artwork.
You have to read through every output and discern what is good or bad.
You have to filter out the noise and pick out the diamonds in the mountain of dirt.
You have to be extremely thoughtful in what exactly you want, while balancing the need to explore and let the AI suggest possibilities to you.
It really isn’t that easy or fun for that matter.
You have to really want it.
Of course there will be naysayers and critics.
The backlash was apparent and vicious.
“One critic is Anupa Roper, a children’s book author based in the UK, who said she had a “sinking feeling in the pit of [her] stomach,” when she saw Reshi’s tweet. “I’m thinking, Is it really that easy to create something that I had to pour my heart and soul into?” Roper said.”
Ammaar said he received death threats and abuse.
The links to his ebooks are no longer up.
Thoughts swirling in my head.
Is it wrong?
What exactly is so wrong about what he did?
Was it the fact that he used a tool and outsourced creativity to a software?
Was it the making money and profiting part that made it feel wrong?
Should we be allowed to make money from AI generated work?
Should we be allowed to outsource human creativity?
If we do that, and machines and AI are allowed to create, is it still called creativity?
-
Is it ok to make money from AI generated work?
-
#startups #business #startupx #entrepreneurship #hustle #eth #btc #chatgpt #NFT #weekendproject #meme #aigeneratedart #midjourney #childrenbook #weekendproject #sparkle #AItech #generativeai
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