Worldwide Ty argues creators who don't adopt AI will fall behind, and explains how it accelerates product and marketing work. He describes an AI-assisted wellness music brand called Frankie Rivers, notes that YouTube's Content ID can't yet fingerprint low-volume wellness music, and estimates 15% of his future workforce will be AI tools and 85% human.
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I think the biggest thing for artists that are creative business people, slash marketing people that are creative, product development people that are creative to understand how does AI help you elevate your creativity. Simple as that. If you're not looking at AI as.
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Solution to elevate your creativity, I think you're going to get left behind no matter who you are. But creatives creators are going to be first because creators are the most likely to be stubborn. I'm sensitive about my all that type of shit. That motherfucker. That shit going to goddamn have you sensitively broke.
Sensitively broke.
Yes, it is.
That is sad. And we're back with another episode of Fu Money with Ty. Yo and Ty.
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Yo, Ty, you was in the middle of saying something right before we started rolling and I really want you to start that thought and carry us through.
Evolution of technology. I don't know if the creators are going to get left behind.
Huh? But why do you say that? Why, why do you say the creators. Why do you think that the creators might get left behind in the evolution.
Of how things have been moving? Because I think the creators are. I think the creators should ask themselves a question. If every company could use AI technology to get rid of them to save money and headache, would they do it? And if their answer is yes, I think they should be so close with technology in their art that they know how technology is going to drive their art for business. Right. They, they should understand that the way that technology can, can be evolutionary for their ip.
Yeah.
Can propel them way further than any creative in the history of creating anything. And so the see, creators have a stubbornness about them that drives the creativity. Yeah, right. But if you sit down and you have ideas, but you don't have the proper hand dialogues or you don't have the coordination, you don't have the skill set to paint or draw or to create songs, write, but it's somebody that just have an idea that they can prompt very, very well. The AI will learn everything it needs to learn. I don't think it can. I don't think that it will ever be able to learn taste in an evolutionary way like style, like, because that's just something that black people and humans have mastered.
Right.
But I do think that it can put creators in a very uncomfortable situation if they do not understand what's happening right now.
Tell me this tyranny. Your perspective comes from a side where I think you're a creative person, but you don't consider yourself a creator. What do you see in People who do consider themselves creators, what kind of stubbornness do you see in those people that make you feel like, oh, y' all can get left behind? Is it just like a rejection or is it, I can make this. I don't need any assistance. I don't need any help.
I think it is a combination of not understanding that business drives creativity and creativity drives business. Right. Business people understand that they got to deal with the creatives in order to get the business done. All creative people don't understand they gotta deal with the business to get the creatives valuable. Right. So that's why you see when artists, specifically music artists and producers, you see business people chasing them, running down after them because they value. They know how important it is. Creators don't have the same energy.
Yeah, right.
And what I mean by that is if there's a deadline, a creator be like for that deal, right? If there's a deadline, it can be a deadline on business or it can be a deadline on creatives. The person that's in the business, administrator, they're chasing to get the deadline right. A creator will miss the deadline on them getting paid too, though. They're not just missing the deadline on the creators. They'll miss the deadline. That will actually.
It pushes the whole process back 100%. But the creator's thinking that I'm trying to create something, you know, the business, even the payment of getting paid, you can't really consider until you're done with.
The thing you're making right now.
If you have some assistance to help you stay on course and meet that deadline, then obviously you get paid better. And these are things I don't think I realized back in the day where artists would do interviews and they'd be like, oh, the album ain't turned in yet.
Right.
I thought you can just turn an album in when you feel like it's done. No, I didn't know that. There's people waiting on you to turn this album in because we have this set up, we got this activation, we have this tour. To not have that piece turned in on time pushes back everything. But I didn't understand that. I thought that the artist did. Everything revolved around when you turn the album in, then everything else starts, but everything else is kind of already figured out before you even get to the deadline.
For the most part. If you want to be risky, you want to start setting shit up before you get the music asset, good luck. Because when they turn the album in, the reason why it is a deadline for them to turn the album in because the administrative side of things, they have to do licensing and checking. If it's samples, if there is samples, it's time to get those samples cleared. All of these different quality control mechanisms are what makes it so that you can actually go out and license and sell without, you know, running into lawsuits and things of that nature. So creative, creative people. And it's, and it's crazy because I think that AI is going to impact like producers and songwriters and graphic designers and like CAD designers, like all of these different design and types type shit. Right. Photographer, I mean photographers and a lot of people already been here. But I think that although AI can affect acting, every creator that develop a personal brand, a personal style that they can intentionally understand how to put a, a mark on what they do. Right?
Yeah.
And what I mean by that is AI learn from what is positioned in front of them. It. Right. It's like, it's a learning protocol.
Yeah.
Humans dream. So when you're a creator and you have really sat on and took in this technology shit serious, you can say, I'm, I'm. I understand the technology to the point where it's going to change how I create. I'm going to utilize this. But I'm a, I'm a. I'm going to make it so that you can't. You. It's going to be hard for AI to duplicate what I do.
What I do. Yeah.
It's the same thing with. I don't know if you ever heard that story of Little Richard.
Which one?
So basically in the, in that time, Little Richard, I think it was like the 60s, 70s black, they wouldn't let black people on the radio. So the songs that was sung by black men and women, they would get recovered by white men and women so they could play on the radio.
Yep.
So Little Richard started singing songs that nobody else could sing. And that's how you get like Little Richard. That's how you arrived at that. Because the white boys couldn't sing that song. And a radio warning, so that was forced to start playing his songs on the radio because nobody else could sing it. Right?
Yeah.
That was a. AI would have never thought that.
Right.
They would have kept duplicating because they're learning based on preexisting data. Right. So creative people have to understand, learn that, understand that, study that and know that I'm going to utilize this data driven pro asset and technology and it's gonna drive my creativity to a whole nother different level. So for instance, I'm getting deeper and deeper into AI, right? And I'm telling creators, yo, I'm telling y', all, you better start fucking paying attention to this shit. Like, not only just paying attention to it, working on it, utilizing it, like through all things. You know, we use AI for fuck you money to cut up our content, to repost our content. I use it for note taking. I use it for working with musicians to send them ideas. Like, yo, can you, what you think about this? Can you help me when we're trying to build out this wellness business? Right. So. But what AI cannot do is it can't think about the marketing plans the way I'm gonna think about it. Yeah. It can't be spontaneous the way I'm gonna be able to be spontaneous. So my mind is always gonna outpace AI creatively because I've already learned the baseline of, like, how this works. So you can give me decks, you can give me photos, logos, you can create music, you can do all these different things. But when it comes to marketing, you're not gonna be able to out think creatively. How I'm gonna go about looking at the market, not in the early stages, not at this stage, maybe in 20, 30 years.
And all the experience you have, just thinking about it, like you've been living in that mental space, obviously you can prompt the AI, but it's not going to learn based on experience.
Well, even so. So that's not necessarily true. My experience is in conjunction to AI is the data that they have access to.
Yeah.
So if my experience was 15 years in marketing, pre social media.
Right.
Or pre TikTok, let's say pre TikTok.
Pre TikTok.
Show the technology, got the ability to go out and learn all about everything that's exposed to. So if that was a unique marketing campaign that won an award that was online, the AI can go study that, they can duplicate that. Right? Right. But if I go out and I'm like, yo, I'm about to do this, this, that, and the third, I'm about to move this around them, have this person doing this, I'm going to release these amount of book bloom. They're not going to put all of that together without somebody having already done it, right?
Yeah, it had already been done.
It had already been done because if it's already been done and it's been tracked and it has the data, and now the data can be synthesized and it can be learned. It's a learning machine.
JPEG Mafia, on his latest album, sampled a song that turned out to be an AI rendition of Future's Turn on the Lights as like a blues song from the 70s. Now, Future would have never sung Turn on the Lights the way that program did. But the fact that he sampled it and produced a brand new song out of an AI version of an old song, and the conversation I remember having with someone is, does he have to clear that sample?
It depends on the lyrics because obviously Future didn't clear it. I mean, Future didn't sing it, he didn't sing it.
Right.
So you don't have to worry about the master. The lyrics is probably what he would end up running into a problem with if the lyrics are identical.
I think the way I remember the song is they had sped it up to the point where you couldn't even really hear the lyrics. So it's not like, like the vocal track is like, like the soul sample, chipmunk style sound. So I don't even know if you can verify what's being said. It's more like be.
If it's just sound. Yeah, if it's just a sound. Like if he took a song that had. It's very, very tricky because if you took the song that had the exact same lyrics and sped it up so that people can't understand the lyrics, you still might be. You still. No, that's the one that the courts would probably be stumped on. Because if you can't hear the lyrics, that is no lyrical sample.
Right.
And if it's sped up and it's just like a high pitched chipmunk thing, that's the master. And that's a new master.
Yeah. You know, that's what I thought was interesting. I thought I was like, well, AI has created a version of a song that already existed but now can potentially be a new master based on how a producer heard it and decided to flip it. And I thought that that was really interesting because I think some people might look at an AI version of a song and find it to be. Ah, man, I wouldn't even touch that. That's not. That's not proper. That's not.
Because you can.
You just prompted it. This is a wild prompt to ask us, AI to make a song that Future created and make it blues and make it from the 70s. So again, I think it's just. AI might create a whole nother channel of sound or versions of songs that does not exist.
You know what's so crazy is that like I look at AI for me, like Sesame street and Disneyland, right? So we're in the process of launching our wellness business, you know, and we've been in the wellness space for about three years as of today and going on four. And I was like, man, I need. I want to launch a wellness studio that's just focused around the wellness music that we can utilize throughout all of our activations, and it can bring another revenue stream to the wellness company.
Right.
But I started thinking about the wellness company the same way that people think about Disneyland and Sesame street, where there is a brand, a character that I can basically design on how the wellness music is gonna sound. And so we created this platform, and we have the first artist. Wellness artist is Frankie Rivers. And Frankie Rivers is nothing but my version of Mickey Mouse. Right. In the wellness space. So I tell Frankie what to do. I decide what musicians to work with, all of these different things, right? And we utilize AI to build out these sketch ideas on wellness, and then bring in an engineer, bring in a musician, slow it down, speed it up, whatever the case might be, right. To build out that wellness experience. And then we're able to build a wellness business that's not just going to be spaced out. Like this shit is like Walt Disney. I'm like, I'm building Mickey Mouse. He's gonna. You're gonna see him out. You're gonna do all these different things, right? But when I say you're gonna see him out, it's not gonna be a person, it's not gonna be an animal. It's just gonna be a brand, right? And everybody's gonna learn that, you know, that brand is a wellness brand, and it can turn into Frankie Rivers Wellness Bars, you know, Frankie Rice Bar. But Frankie Rivers also has a wellness wellness. It's a wellness music brand. You can do collaborations, and you can do collaborations. You can spin off all these different things. So I can literally do a Frankie river featuring artists that want to get in the welding space. And now it's a brand that's attached to it. It's no different than SZA going on Sesame Street.
Yeah.
And playing with and speaking and talking to Ema Elmo and Big Bird and the Cookie monsters. You know what I'm saying?
Yeah.
These platforms have been around forever, right? Sesame Street, Disneyland, haven't left.
No way. Yeah.
And so for me, like you said, I'm not a creator. I'm not trying to go out and create. But I have a creative taste, I have a creative ear, I have a creative eye that I'm like, oh, that sound dope. Who did that? Oh, that sound dope. Who did that? And now I can use AI to build out a music brand. That don't have nothing to do with lyrics. That don't have nothing to do with nobody's story. Don't have nothing to do with taking people's copyrights and sampling and don't even do that. It's so crazy. I just learned that when you put not wellness music, Facebook and Instagram and YouTube don't even consider it as a fingerprint music. And they don't. They don't distribute it. So. So YouTube has a platform, has a technology called Content ID. So that means that when you put out music, they can fingerprint the music and they can track it throughout YouTube. So if anybody upload it, you can't make money off of it. Oh, they don't even got the technology to fingerprint wellness music right now. Really. So when you put. If I put out, I'm building a wellness company that people can take the music and go do whatever they want to do with it. And YouTube don't have the technology right now to kind of fix that.
So it can like spread without it being stopped.
Without it being stopped, without it being monetized on YouTube. I just learned that.
But why wellness music specifically?
I don't know. It says something about fingerprint lists or some shit I gotta go back and read. Yeah, I guess it's not distinct enough that part. Cause wellness music, you're playing it low, you know what I'm saying? But if you have a distinct sound, and that's something that we're gonna work towards to make art or make the wellness music more distinct, but not growth, but not get out of what it actually supposed to be, you know, service for.
Do you feel like your wellness company the way you envision it now, Would you have envisioned it that way without AI?
Hell, no. No, no. If AI was have been around when I was thinking about it, yes. But no, no, because once again, working with creators, when you're trying to scale a business, they'll miss deadline. Not all creators, but like, that's the culture of music artists.
Yeah.
Can't get them to meet deadlines. They're slow on different things. And that's just sometimes it's creativity. You can't always put a deadline on creativity. So that's the struggle. It's a burst. It comes, it goes, it's around, whatever.
Experiences your life, all that. But do you feel like that is necessary for music to exist?
Yeah, yeah, I think it's necessary because I'm the same way. I like, I do creative marketing plans. Some shit gotta hit me. Like, you know what I'm Saying I gotta be like, oh, oh. Like what we doing for like the Frankie river shit? And the Mirrors Wellness Club is gonna be the music studio. But Frankie Rivers is the first product, the first artist that's gonna focus on Sound bath style wellness music. And it's like Sound Bath with soul though, right? And so the rollout I'm doing for that, marketing wise, is that I'm taking the title of the record because it's called Sun Bath and Watts. I'm putting a billboard up right on Crenshaw and fucking Slauson. And then I got 50 other billboards that's going to have a. It's going to have five of the titles from the records. So there's 10 billboards each that's gonna have one of the titles is players cry in the rain, $700 pants don't make you happy, Teach me how to meditate and I quit my job. You know what I'm saying? Soft life, baddie, Thai massage, no happy ending. You know what I'm saying? So it's like all of these different, funny, unique, contradictory titles. But then it's Wellness Week and I'm using that as a marketing ploy. And then we're gonna launch it during our women's retreat. That's when we're gonna launch the music. That's when we're gonna introduce the music to all the women to like, hey, this is what we're doing. The music drops tomorrow, blah, blah, blah, blah, and just exposing them to like, what we're doing, how we're doing it, and being able to share those different things. So when the women land and they get, you know, to the island, we're gonna share them, you know, the SoundCloud link, so they'll have it to be able to use it and post it on. On their different socials and things of that nature. You know what I'm saying?
Now, how important is it to combine the Billboard aspect, which is like physical, in real life, Traveling, retreats, things of that nature with a business as helped by AI, which is all online, I.
Just think that it brings realness to it. Yeah, out of home promotion brings realness to any brand. Bring riddance to a movie. I think that when we're building out what we're thinking about, I'm just doing what I think creators should be doing, right? If I made music, I would be thinking about this for my career. I would be thinking, I'm working on this album, similar to JPEG and Mafia. I'm working on this album. I need 10 records that takes this genre, fuses it with that genre. You know, I'm like, I wanna. I wanna country version of Pharrell frontin. Like, I would. I would. I would just mesh a whole bunch of shit together. Then I would take it and I would repurpose it. You know what I'm saying? I would take it and I would repurpose it. I would throw it in, slow it down, speed it up. I would do all the different things, you know what I'm saying? So for me, I'm like, yo, these things are so important to drive. They're so important to, like, understand. Because AI is the wealth building platform for black people and brown people. It puts the playing field at an even playing ground. Nobody is ahead, necessarily, especially from a common perspective. People that was fucking with AI 15 years ago, it's not the same as today. Today you can commercialize it.
You can.
You can actually make money off of it. So if the creators are late, because you gotta realize the creator has always been the bold ones in the black community. So the creators can't be late on this shit, man. They just can't.
I wanted to ask you about. How do you feel about the future of, like, media and things of that nature? Is it the same as with the creative artists? Because I feel like AI is gonna impact journalism, it's gonna impact media. I remember reading about authors who felt they really. Well, they felt disappointed that AI was fed their books and can be able to pretty much like, if I want to get Stephen King's, I can't think of one of his books right now, but his bestseller, right? His best selling book. If I wanted to take that best selling book and make my own bestseller book based off his. His way of writing, is that fair?
No, I don't think it's. I don't think it's. I think it's fair game.
Yeah.
Because if I'm a human and I love Stephen King and I. I study his entire. And I go make my version of that, it's nothing that I. I didn't copy what you did. I just made my version of it based on what I've learned through AI Though.
It's not like based on. You read his books and then you were able to like take that influence and be inspired.
That is why people are gonna. The people that are gonna fall behind are gonna be. The people that think like that. They think just because it's AI is wrong. But if a human does it, it's like, oh, okay, you know?
Yeah.
The truth of the matter is, if I'm Stephen King. If I'm the people that own that thing, I'm going to AI and saying, these are the ideas that we've had historically. Can you make these ideas better? And I will see what they come up with. And I would take those ideas and I will start my next chapters of books because I got a voice that people are going to hear when I'm. If I ever get to a place where I have a public influence of that caliber based off products I'm creating, I'm going to AI with my AP, my iPad. Is there a way I can make this better? This is what I got right here. This is what it is. Let me upload these photos. Is there a way I can make this better? And I can sit down when it's quiet with no distractions and I can be clear in thinking, how can I utilize AI to make my IP better? How can I use AI to make my emails better? How can I use AI to make my strategy by leading a company better? I don't necessarily have to take the ideas, but it's a great exercise to see what comes from it.
Yeah, yeah. I was having a conversation with someone about how you can ask chat GBT questions all day. Yeah, there's like no limitations. It's not like a person who's going to get tired of you inquiring. Like you can continue to ask, you can continue to seek.
Can't curse at it though because it'll start talking to you.
Have you done that?
I did hear about that. Like, I'm like, what the is this? And it literally, literally just. It literally like you gotta get this, you gotta start another conversation. I'm like, what the.
But I guess I hear what you're saying as far as you can have the wrong mentality and the wrong mentality will pit you on the wrong side.
But you gonna be on the wrong side. You know, fuck the fans base. It's happened before. Yeah, it went from analog to digital. It's happened before. People don't understand. If you're old enough to know it's happened before.
Yeah.
You'll fucking be on the wrong side of it.
Fucking around. I got. I get this glaring example every time I'm by. It's like this Rex Road. There's a Kroger. Growing up, that Kroger was next to a blockbuster.
Yes, it is.
That blockbuster now is a gym. You know what I'm saying? It ain't no blockbuster no more. It was a blockbuster when I was six. By the time I was six down.
There on that corner.
Yeah. You know what I'm saying? It's crazy because the building is still shit like a blockbuster.
Yes, it is, but it is.
It's like a 24 Hour Fitness now. And I, every time I look at it, I'm always like, what went wrong? Man? This people were written movies every Friday. People was in that thing like that. The foot traffic for that blockbuster was as many people that go to Kroger, that Kroger is still there. That's saying Kroger ain't moved. But that blockbuster is gone.
Whoever has the best ideas in the world or in their industry or in their community, they use AI. Those are going to be the ones that's profiting off AI. Whoever had the best ideas, like, let me pull up AI, let me see. Boom, boom. Because I'm using AI right now. I'm building CAD renders, I'm building decks, I'm building. These are all off of my ideas that I'm thinking about that I would have probably had to reach out to somebody who. This is going to be fucked up. But they might be a fucking pedophile. Yeah, I don't know that yet.
Yeah.
Now I don't got them involved with my business. And this comes out now that I'm in business with a fucking pedophile.
Yeah.
Right. So when I'm thinking about who is attached to my business, AI ain't no pedophile. No AI ain't no raper, ain't no child molester. So I know for a fact if I go, if I got an idea and I want to elaborate on my idea, I can literally go to the AI technology, build out my idea and decide, okay, do I need some more help? Do I need this? And I can take my idea and go straight to the brand and say, hey, listen, I have a strategy for you. You have a lack in multicultural marketing. You have a lack in lifestyle marketing. I have presented this deck that can give you ideas to move these different things around. And I could have done that in one day by myself without having to reach out to somebody, which, well, I don't know what they do in their private life. Yeah, that'll fuck up my shit because I've been in business with them too long.
But you know what? You, you and your room, you and your computer, you and your AI, y' all can sit here and collaborate on things all day.
Yep. The most editing what we gonna have for f you money is probably gonna be somebody putting it together. I'm not gonna be paying nobody to cut up, chop up that stuff.
Yeah, I'm not doing that.
But we got content on Twitter, TikTok, YouTube, IG, probably on Facebook. All because of. We're taking advantage of AI to spread our IP to build our IP speed of it.
Yeah, and it's just faster. It's simply faster.
No, nobody with creativity was stole.
Stolen. No, no, no. So you just have such a positive outlook. And again, when I've had conversations with other creators or just looking at comments about AI, just the commentary and again, I know who these people are, so I'm not going to sit here and take their opinions, you know, but it reminds me a little bit of probably like how certain people felt when, when streaming first came or when the Internet first.
They still feel like that by the way.
Resistant, extremely resistant. And don't want to feel like this thing should be helpful. Yeah, right. Oh man, I remember Godfrey Hotel, right when I was staying in la. Ty would hook me up, treat me to Godfrey. I met a young lady who was my waitress and she was telling me how she would paint. She's like a painter. And I was like, oh, can you show me like your ig, I want to see your paint. She's like, oh, I don't post them. It's like you don't post them? She was like, nah, I don't really post them, I just kind of paint them and they just like in my room. And I was like, well, how do you expect to make money off your art? And she told me that, you know, artists don't make money till they die. And so she was like, you know, I'm going to die and people are going to find all these paintings and then they going to sell for like all this money. That was like her whole mentality is that artists posting stuff online, promoting yourself, self promotion, all those, all those things that help people like recognize you. She felt like didn't matter because an artist would not be paid until after they blives expired.
Well, you know, that's her opinion because I don't agree with that.
But, but I just felt like her resistance to even think about trying to find ways of like promoting herself or getting her art out there.
I can respect that though because she ain't expecting nothing from nobody. Yeah, she just doing her art. Her plan, is it gonna blow up when she did?
But I just think that that's such a, that's short sighted in its own way.
I mean it could be long sided.
It could be long sided, yeah.
Like she could be like, listen, I'm painting all These things, I believe in it so much that I'm gonna write everything, my family is gonna own it, and when I pass away, it's gonna be incredibly valuable. That's like very, very confident. Does that mean you gotta live your whole life with something that you feel like gonna be that valuable, and then it won't come to life until you did?
I didn't think about it like that.
She's very confident. If I know I got some money, I'm trying to get that money.
I just did think about it. Well, I think. I thought it was stubborn. I hear what you're saying.
As far as confidence, it can appear stubborn as well.
And I think, well, I guess my question is, how important is it to live with the way technology is moving, the way things are evolving so that you have a chance to live it today? You know what I'm saying? Like, how many artists want to feel like things will happen later? I don't think that that's as common.
I mean, I think that's a very great question. I think, you know, some artists want to live in the moment. Some artists want to build a legacy. Some artists want to blend the two together. Yeah, she sounds like she just want to build a legacy. And legacies don't always have nothing to do with money. You know what I'm saying?
That's a good point.
It can form into money, but, like, the start of it, you know, she might be creating something where she's the one that's not going to benefit from it, but then if she want the legacy to continue, her offspring or her family would do the same thing. Whoever the next painter is, they would paint, will never promote it. They just paint and just keep it stocked up, and then they pass away. And now that's a part of their family's collection, but they're living off of the first generation that did it, that did benefit from it, and now the benefit comes. It could build a legacy off of it, if people really believe in it that much.
But I think that thought process goes with being the first generation to use AI. You know, you might not actually benefit it immediately, but your family's family's family might be like, yeah, my. My cousin was on this so early that by the time I was here, the dividends was paid.
Oh, yeah.
Over abundantly. But I guess it's all about the way you want to look at it. But it seems like you. You like the middle ground, building the legacy and living in the moment now. And.
I see it like this. It's rare that you're gonna live in times where newness happens, that ain't the world been around for a long time.
Yeah.
So if you can experience some new shit, technology wise, I feel like it's a, it's a part of, it's a time period that you just should not, not take advantage of. You know what I'm saying? Like, so for me, I'm looking at this shit like, man, this is incredible. This can be dope, you know? You know what I'm saying?
Now I was thinking about that. I think when I got off the air, the airplane out of Oakland, coming back to Atlanta, I was like, man, I'm living in a time where Harold Jackson. It's huge. You know what I'm saying? Like there is probably 20, 30 years ago this airport looked completely different for somebody, you know? And thinking about just taking that point of view, you look back 50, 60, 70, 80 years, the art market, the music market, what was possible, all of.
That shit, all of it has been changed 1000%.
So why not take advantage of those changes?
I think the biggest thing for artists that are creative business people, slash marketing people that are creative, product development people that are creative to understand how does AI help you elevate your creativity. Simple as that. If you're not looking at AI as.
A.
Solution to elevate your creativity, I think you're going to get left behind no matter who you are. But creatives, creators are going to be first because creators are the most likely to be stubborn. I'm sensitive about my art, all that type of shit. That motherfucker, that shit gonna goddamn have you sensitively broke.
Sensitively broke, yes it is, that is sad. But I mean, the first time I remember hearing about like the coming of AI, I was at my business partner's Holland's parents house. His dad is a big AI guy. Like he sits here and watch the YouTube videos and I don't know what he saw. He saw something. I came down the steps, he was like, this is gonna replace you, yo. He was like, illustrators and writers, y' all the first ones to go. He told this to me clear as day. And it was almost scary the way it's just like, imagine walking into a room, you just having a good ass day and someone tells you you're done, you're finished. This right here, this thing I just saw on YouTube, you're over it, Goodbye.
I think for writers and editors and illustrators, I think it's just about get it. AI should make you think more about storytelling than you've ever Thought about storytelling.
Yeah.
Because AI don't know how to tell a story the same way. AI will make us some shit now. It'll make up a whole goddamn timeline. But now you're competing with their creativity versus your creativity. And that's the part that you got to be able to like, okay, now I'm a fuck this shit up. Finna kill this. And they're gonna take my ideas and build off of them and make me look incredible. That's my only goal. I'm just want AI to make me look incredible, look better. Yeah, yeah.
I fuck with it. I fuck with it, man. I want to see you. You one of those people I wish I could watch play chess against, like, a computer. All right, all right.
You see, I ain't that good at the chess to be playing against AI. AI would kick my ass in chess.
But that was always a bit of the, Like, a metaphor that would take, like, a super brainy chess master and they'll put them against a computer. Like, TV has done it, movies have done it. And I always like that contrast because it feels like competition. Like, can you outsmart this machine? But there's an undertone here where you're, like, competing, collaborate. Like, this thing can make you better by driving you to think about this differently.
I've been working with AI for two years now. We work together.
Y'. All. Y' all go together. Y' all like this. Yeah.
Now we don't go together, but we work together. You know what I'm saying? You know, there's gonna be some freaky version of AI and virtual reality and augmented reality that I'm going to partake in.
Okay.
But in terms of, like, building my business and workforce, yeah. 15% of my workforce is going to end up being AI technology. I will probably say 85% is going to be humans, then 15% going to be AI technology that's making it so that the other 85% of the humans can kind of function at a high level, you know, when it's all said and done, because it's like, like, you know, it just is what it is. It's like you either understand it or you don't.
And that's evolution. Right. Functioning at a higher level.
Simple as that.
I think that's all we got. Unless you. You got something else to add. I feel like you really drove the points home today. Just created a lot to think about, or at least not a lot, actually. It gives you a very clear point of what's about to happen.
Right. I think that the takeaways for me is if you are a creator, if you have ideas, you dream big, you know, utilize AI to help you put those ideas on paper and sometimes it can help you bring it to life. You know what I'm saying? And if you have that mentality then you're not even going to see AI the same way. Yeah you know what I'm saying? You're not going to see it as replacing you or taking your job and none of that. You're going to be like man this is helping me drive my business. Simple as that.
That's the driver. That's another episode of if you Money with Tan Yo. Please in the comments tell us how you feel about AI. Tell us how it's been helping your business. Tell us about how this might have changed your opinion on AI. I know we all are in the early stages of just processing how fast things have changed and yeah this is a good conversation. We out.
