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Humble Creative Machines: Creating AI to Elevate You (Instead of Replacing You)

AI music tools designed to elevate creativity instead of replacing you are here. From rap to Italian arias, discover humble machines that make music with you, not control you, since 2017! EP #102
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The $5M AI Video Licensing Wave: Why AI Companies Pay $1-4 Per Minute For Video
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Trump Kills AI Copyright Rules: How Creators Thrive NOT Survive Now
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Zero Sum AI Game? Everyone Loses When Artists vs Engineers Make AI Dumber
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The AI Bubble Burst Wakes Up....
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Zero Sum AI Game? Everyone Loses When Artists vs Engineers Make AI Dumber
AI may teach us the value of being human! Why artists and engineers are both losing the AI game, so simple a 5-year-old understands. Play together and…
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Fear and Loathing in the Cult of AI: 3 Steps to Waking from the Subtle Matrix
Are you using AI, or is it using you? A gonzo journey through hype posing as progress. Why America worships AI while China builds it. Plus 3 steps to…
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Trump Kills AI Copyright Rules: How Creators Thrive NOT Survive Now
Trump's AI Policy makes AI content fair game —following China's playbook while creators lose protection. Here's how to adapt when the rules change…
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Free AI Content is Over: License or Die
Developers built AI empires on free content while creators got nothing. Courts are deciding differently now. The licensing wave is here whether you…
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The AI Emperor Has No Code: When $1.5B Startups Fake AI and Governments Silence Creators
$450M vanishes into 'AI' that was just 700 engineers. Meanwhile, governments chose Big Tech over creators. Two groups of digital alchemists selling…
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Humble Creative Machines: Creating AI to Elevate You (Instead of Replacing You)
AI music tools designed to elevate creativity instead of replacing you are here. From rap to Italian arias, discover humble machines that make music…
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Declan Dunn
This AI Paints and Invents - Growing from a Near-Death Experience
What if I told you conscious AI existed 30 years before ChatGPT? DABUS paints, invents, and fights for copyright. The story behind it will change how…
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Declan Dunn
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The Most Pro-AI Company You've Never Heard Of Is Fighting For Creator Licensing (And Why Big Tech Worries)
Eric Burgess builds AI licensing bridges while Big Tech pretends it has the right to take content. His B Corp proves you can be pro-AI AND pro-creator …
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The AI Belief Codes: True Believers versus the rest of us
You say AI is confusing, others see a human mirror. The AI Belief Codes show engineers are true believers and creators the skeptics. Stuck in their AI…
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The Human Edge: AI Copyright's Creative Threat
Who owns AI-generated content? Discover why creativity's edge matters more than legal battles. From Shakespeare in Code to Open Canvas and Think…
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AI Copyright pivots for Creators
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The AI Emperor Has No Code: When $1.5B Startups Fake AI and Governments Silence Creators
$450M vanishes into 'AI' that was just 700 engineers. Meanwhile, governments chose Big Tech over creators. Two groups of digital alchemists selling…
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The TikTok AI Blueprint: UK and US Adopt SV's 'Take First, Get Lawyers, Pay Later'?
While governments rewrite copyright law for AI (free data), big creators with lawyers get licensing deals. Everyone else gets the opt-out lottery…
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This AI Paints and Invents - Growing from a Near-Death Experience
What if I told you conscious AI existed 30 years before ChatGPT? DABUS paints, invents, and fights for copyright. The story behind it will change how…
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Declan Dunn
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The Most Pro-AI Company You've Never Heard Of Is Fighting For Creator Licensing (And Why Big Tech Worries)
Eric Burgess builds AI licensing bridges while Big Tech pretends it has the right to take content. His B Corp proves you can be pro-AI AND pro-creator …
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Declan Dunn
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A 48-Hour AI Copyright Heist: The USCO Bombshell Report & The Perlmutter Purge
US Copyright Office sends shockwaves with bombshell AI report endorsing creator rights, then 24 hours later the report's author is fired. Coincidence…
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The $5M AI Video Licensing Wave: Why AI Companies Pay $1-4 Per Minute For Video
Data matters. For AI, Video data matters more. AI companies paying $1-4 per minute for quality footage, creating a $5M+ marketplace. Learn what content…
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