Real Jobs, Deepfakes, GenZ, AI Music, and Autumn Traditions

Weekly Review of News in Technology, UX and AI

Here’s the latest news, resources, and use cases from the world of product, UX, AI and technology. Let’s go:

• 📊 AI Entrepreneurship

• 🧑‍🌾 Real Jobs

• 🧑‍🎤 Deepfakes

• 👦 GenZ

• 🎶 AI Music

• ☑️ Obligations

• 🍂 Fall Traditions

Podcast

Unlocking the Secrets of AI Entrepreneurship with Founder Andrew Amann

In this episode of Prodity: Product by Design, Kyle Evans interviews Andrew Amann, CEO and co-founder of NineTwoThree AI Studio. Andrew shares his extensive experience in entrepreneurship, product development, and the challenges of building AI products. We discuss the importance of understanding product-market fit, the patent process, and the journey of founding multiple companies. Andrew emphasizes the significance of focusing on a specific audience and the value of holistic entrepreneurship, where success is measured not just by financial gain but also by personal fulfillment and work-life balance. We also explore the future of AI, its applications across various industries, and the evolving landscape of technology.

News and Useful Reads

Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren’t Even “Real Work” to Start With

Corporate America is certainly filled with some bullshit jobs. But I don’t like the idea that one of the CEOs shaping our AI future believes that any job that AI can do wasn’t a “real job” to begin with.

“If you’re, like, farming, you’re doing something people really need,” Altman explained. “You’re making them food, you’re keeping them alive. This is real work.” But the farmer would see our modern jobs as “playing a game to fill your time,” and therefore not a “real job.”

OpenAI bans MLK deepfakes after ‘disrespectful depictions’

OpenAI created a Pandora’s Box with Sora. And they are working on some guardrails after seeing some of the problems their AI video creation tool caused.

OpenAI maintains there are “strong free speech interests” in allowing creators to use historical figures in their videos, but acknowledges some guardrails are needed. It will start giving their estates the ability to opt out of likenesses being used on the app.

Goldman Sachs Says Gen Z Is Pretty Much Permanently Screwed

The job market has been terrible, and it doesn’t seem like it’s going to improve any time soon. Which is bad news for those earlier in their careers. Or anyone looking for a new job.

In an analysis of recent economic trends in the US, Goldman Sachs economists David Mericle and Pierfrancesco Mei wrote that “jobless growth” is pretty much the new normal.

Spotify moves further into AI music with Sony, Universal, Warner partnership

Spotify is partnering with a large group of companies to develop AI music. It’s not clear what exactly that means yet. Personalized music on demand? More AI slop in your playlist? Less money for musicians?

Although the company did not confirm any specific AI tools in development, Spotify said in a release that it is making “significant investments in AI research and product development,” including a new AI research lab and product team.

You don’t have obligations, only consequences

We’ve written about this before in our review of Meditations for Mortals, but I’m a fan of the idea of reducing the idea of obligations and filling our lives with meaning.

almost nothing in life is truly mandatory, only consequential. Freedom, Joppich concludes, means recognizing that you’re always choosing, and that every choice carries a cost. Once he stops forcing it, he often circles back to the task by choice, not duty.

Other Interesting Finds

The Intriguing Origins of 8 Autumn Traditions

I’m certainly in the minority, but I love candy corn. Chalk it up to growing up with cheap candy, but it’s still a favorite.

It may be the year’s most polarizing candy, but its history is long and sweet. Candy corn dates back to the 1880s, when a confectioner at the Wunderle Candy Company began producing it under the even-less-appetizing name of Chicken Feed.