I spent an hour talking to her about the future of creating on the internet in the age of AI. She’s our first-ever repeat guest, and if you watch the episode you’ll see why: It’s a curious, fun, experimental romp through the best of the digital world.

We try out four underrated AI products, go through a list of Steph’s favorite niche internet creators, and follow her creative process in Midjourney in granular detail.

We had a wide-ranging discussion about:

This is a must-watch if you make things on the internet and are interested in how AI is changing what it means to be a creator—and how creator businesses work.

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To hear more from Dan Shipper:

00:00:00 - Teaser

00:00:46 - Introduction

00:09:08 - How Steph uses Midjourney to find her aesthetic

00:20:45 - Steph predicts how creating on the internet will evolve with AI

00:32:51 - Rapid-fire rundown of Steph's favorite niche creators

00:42:58 - How Steph trains her brain on better data

00:48:19 - The AI research tool Steph uses for health information

00:56:25 - The future of AI tools—and one of Steph's top picks

01:01:20 - Dan and Steph use AI to create a simulation of the internet

01:05:09 - How LLM hallucinations can be useful

01:12:06 - Dan and Steph make a song about what they learned on the show

Links to resources mentioned in the episode:

Steph Smith: https://twitter.com/stephsmithio

Internet Pipes: https://internetpipes.com/

Doing Content Right: https://doingcontentright.com/#features

A few of Steph’s favorite niche creators: India Rose Crawford, Blackforager, David Zinn, David Bird, WatchMaggiePaint

The podcast episode Dan did with filmmaker Dave Clark: https://every.to/chain-of-thought/how-a-hollywood-director-uses-ai-to-make-movies

The AI tools Dan and Steph use on the show: Consensus, Globe Explorer, websim.ai, Granola, Suno