70% of Creatives Are Using AI & Here’s Why!

Hey, Jim Carter here. Welcome back to the Prompt. If you're new here, this is an AI powered podcast exploring what's possible with AI and my personal efforts in pushing the technology forward. I keep you updated on everything AI and share how you can use it in your business and personal life. So a few weeks ago I watched my daughter's third grade talent show as 20 kids played we Will Rock youk on Boomwhackers. It was chaotic, beautiful and somehow perfectly in sync. Later that night, I fell into a rabbit hole listening to AI generated jazz. It got me thinking. When you're open to AI expanding creativity and art and not as a hostile takeover, something special happens. Let's talk about how AI is becoming your creative partner, not your replacement. AI can help you sketch, write and compose faster than ever before, but the heart of the work, the meaning behind it, that stays completely human. And the numbers actually tell a pretty interesting story. 70% of creative professionals now use AI tools every single day. Last month, an AI helped song cracked Billboard's top 40 for the first time. Creative software that lets humans and AI work together grew 180% since 2023. So we can see that AI and creative integration is on the rise. But what about beyond the numbers? In music, AI lets us blend things nobody would have tried before. Musicians are using these tools to discover new sounds and reach audiences they never could have imagined. In architecture, firms like Zaha Hadid architects feed rough sketches into AI models. Within minutes, they can test wild roof shapes and impossible curves. What used to take weeks of calculations now happens before lunch. This means more time to perfect the designs that actually get built. And get this solo. Game developers can now use GPT4 to write complex storylines with branching paths. The AI handles dialogue variations while the developer focuses on gameplay. Production costs drop by 70% and unique games reach players faster. Not to mention how educators using AI lesson planners save about six hours every week. That's a lot of time they can spend giving students personal feedback instead of formatting worksheets. One teacher told me she finally has time to write individual progress notes for each student. Parents love it, kids feel seen, and test scores are improving. Here's what this means for you. AI handles the repetitive stuff, giving you more time for the work only humans can do. Adding emotion, creating strategy, finding that weird angle nobody else would think of. You don't need a recording studio to make professional music anymore. You don't need expensive design software to create stunning visuals. A smartphone and the right AI tool can turn anyone into a creator. Marketing teams report Writing ad copy three times faster. Design agencies cut prototype development time in half. If you're stuck on a presentation, just drop your main points into an AI and it'll give you a bunch of different ways to structure it. Got one blog post? You can turn that into 20 fresh social media ideas in seconds. Even your inbox AI can help draft replies. So you're just reviewing and sending, not starting from scratch every time. And look, it's not just about how AI helps with creativity in your work life. It can be just as useful in your personal life. Let's say you're planning a birthday party. You could ask an AI to help you come up with decoration ideas based on a specific theme and budget, and it'll pull together a vibe board, color palette, even a shopping list. Or maybe you're learning guitar. There are AI tools now that actually listen to your playing, spot what you're struggling with and recommend custom exercises to help you improve faster. It's kind of wild how much you can offload to tech without losing the human touch. Here's the thing. AI isn't here to replace what makes you great. It's a tool that builds on your expertise, your instincts, your relationships, the stuff you already know and care about. That's still the most valuable part. AI. AI just helps you move faster, think bigger, and focus on the work that actually matters. If you're looking for tools to try today, here are a few I love Suno lets you type in a mood or theme, and it creates a full song in under a minute. Great for video content or background tracks. Adobe Firefly is built into Photoshop now, and it can remove backgrounds, extend images, or fill in missing parts without all the manual editing. And Jasper has a brand voice feature. You upload a few writing samples, and it helps you keep your tone consistent across everything you write. Super useful if you're juggling a lot of content. If you're into this kind of stuff and want to go deeper, come check out my private Slack group for founders, entrepreneurs and creatives experimenting with AI in real life. We share tools, prompts, wins, roadblocks, all the behind the scenes. I'd love to have you join us. As always, thanks for tuning in. And let's keep pushing the boundaries one prompt at a time. See you in the next episode.