How can you use AI tools to ethically and responsibly create in whatever sphere you love? What are some of the tools and why are creative direction, voice, and taste, so important? I discuss these issues and more in a solo introduction and an interview with Oliver Altair.
In the first 28 mins of the podcast, I give an extended introduction about the various legal cases around AI and copyright, my thoughts on the best way to approach it for your creative work, and how to use AI tools ethically and responsibly. I've included the transcript below with lots of links and further resources, and you can find more at
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Oliver Altair is a dark fantasy author, a digital artist and creator of the Ravensfield Collection.
You can listen above or on
your favorite podcast app or read the notes and links below. Here are the highlights and the full transcript is below. The interview starts at 28:33 mins.
Show Notes
* The creation of the Ravensfield Collection using AI art
* How AI art can be used as a marketing tool for authors
* Available tools for an AI-augmented creative
* How to write AI prompts to achieve the best results
* Concerns about intellectual property when training models
* What are the different kinds of Creative Commons licenses?
* The importance of creative confidence, voice, and taste, for making art with AI tools
* Generative writing tools as a brainstorming co-pilot
You can find Oliver Altair at
OliverAltair.com. You can view the Ravensfield Collection at
Ravensfield.art.
Header image by Joanna Penn on Midjourney.
Transcript of the solo introduction on generative AI with Joanna Penn
Before we get into the interview, I just want to add some over-arching comments as I’m getting a lot of emails about generative AI for art and obviously for words.
It feels like a lot of people are going through now what I did a few years back when I first heard about all this,