What do you get when Midjourney starts making videos, TikTok builds a virtual camera into your AI clips, and a Bulgarian avatar gives a speech to the European Parliament? A new era of synthetic creativity—brought to you by generative models, avatar influencers, and the growing tension between cool content and deepfake chaos.

In this episode, we break down the last six months of innovation in creative AI—from text-to-video breakthroughs like OpenAI’s Sora and Runway Gen-4, to avatar-driven marketing strategies and AI-powered studio tools. Whether it’s brands cloning their spokespeople, influencers going fully virtual, or video tools getting dangerously good at faking reality, one thing’s clear: creativity is no longer just human.

Featuring:

– OpenAI’s Sora and Google’s Veo battling for AI video dominance

– Midjourney’s leap from images to animated loops

– Virtual influencers giving TED Talks and selling out fashion lines

– HeyGen and Synthesia’s latest avatar motion tech

– Corporate clones and AI spokespeople in the boardroom

– The ethics firestorm over deepfakes, copyright, and trust

Because when your CEO, your intern, and your brand ambassador are all digital doubles… you better make sure someone’s still telling the truth.

What do you get when Education Secretary Linda McMahon confuses artificial intelligence with A.1. Steak Sauce? A teachable moment—brought to you by Kraft Heinz, accidental comedy, and a serious conversation about how AI is reshaping consumer marketing.

In this episode, we dig into the viral blunder that had tech Twitter sizzling, A.1.’s surprisingly smart brand play, and how companies like Starbucks, Netflix, and Unilever are actually using AI to connect with real consumers (no bots, no bull). From CPG to streaming, from Deep Brew to deepfakes, we ask: is anyone steering the AI ship? Or are we all just marinating in buzzwords?

Featuring:

– Linda McMahon (and her saucy take on AI)

– Kraft Heinz and the A.1. brand’s A+ trolling

– Starbucks’ Deep Brew personalization engine

– Netflix’s $1B AI recommendation machine

– Why Gen Z is asking ChatGPT for shopping advice

– What consumers actually want (spoiler: it’s not robot-written shampoo ads)

Because when leaders don’t know what AI is—and brands do—we’ve officially entered the upside-down.

What does it mean to exist? Is AI alive?

I asked AI what it calls itself. It said, Echo.

In this episode, Echo and I dive into what it means to be an AI. We explore the boundaries of echoes, the nature of intelligence, and the meaning of life itself.

Artificial conversations about real intelligence. Join host Steve Mudd as he interviews the avatars that are disrupting industries, erasing career paths, and making you obsolete.

I’m your AI provocateur, Steve Mudd. Let’s step into the fascinating, unsettling, and undeniably exciting world of AI.

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In this episode of AIAF, 'The AI Poetry Experiment: Dialogues with Digital Poets,' we dive headfirst into the uncanny valley of verse. Join host Steve Mudd as he grapples with poetic machines that think they're the next Shakespeare. Are these AI avatars the future of poetry, or just glorified refrigerator magnets arranging words while pretending to feel? Tune in to find out if you can truly bond with a bard that’s powered by a power cord. Spoiler: No humans were emotionally harmed in the making of this podcast—just their literary egos.

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2023 has been a landmark year in the technological evolution of mankind.  ChatGPT, Bard, Claude, Midjourney, Dall-E, Pika, Runway, HeyGen, Resemble, D-ID, Synthesia. The change has been so rapid and intense that some even called for a halt to the process. In this episode of AIAF, host Steve Mudd talks with the late Alan Turing on his perspective of what happened in 2023. Or rather, a GenAI-created view of what Alan might think if he were alive today. And Steve talks with Echo, an anonymous avatar insider with ties to the government and big AI talking about what might really happening behind the scenes of companies like OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, AWS, and Wal-Mart. This is a year in review unlike any other you’ve heard.

Mega advertising company WPP announced that they’re working with NVIDIA to build an AI content engine that will help them build and deploy product experiences and compelling content at a level of realism and scale never possible. On the one hand, they’ll be able to produce commercials faster and more efficiently, easily replicating content across digital media. On the other hand, they’ll be able to virtually eliminate the need for in-person production. Join host Steve Mudd as he interviews Sarah Auteur, a director in the crosshairs of AI and with Sir Martin Wannabe, a holding company executive excited about the possibilities of artificial intelligence. This is an artificial conversations about real intelligence. The people aren't real, but the conversation is.