The Meat Puppets Podcast

Hold onto your headphones, podcast fans - Martin and Paul are back with another meaty episode! This time our intrepid duo explore the pros and cons of using AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude to streamline their podcast production. How far can automation take them? Will AI help or hinder their creative process?

Tune in as Martin and Paul dive into virtual assistants, machine-generated content, and the ethics of AI voices. You'll hear how today's AI can transcribe audio, suggest ideas, optimise SEO, and even clone your speech patterns! Martin and Paul chronicle their adventures, revealing what works, what doesn't, and their vision for integrating bots into their startup journey. Love it or hate it, artificial intelligence is here - and The Meat Puppets aim to ride this digital wave with insight and humour. So plug in and get ready for another wild ride to the digital frontier!

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Episode Links (visit at your own risk!!)

• AI Generated Podcast from @edwardbrawer - https://x.com/edwardbrawer/status/1632797438678368256?
• Quick demo of using claude.ai to generate show notes for a Podcast : https://youtu.be/yEf5BKofgJY

The Meat Puppets podcast is for entertainment purposes only. Hosts Martin Riley and Paul Billington are experienced media professionals but they are not experts in law, AI or any topics discussed on the show. Listeners should not construe their personal opinions or banter as professional legal advice. All business decisions should be made based on your own independent research and assessment of risks. While delivered with good humour, the hosts make no guarantees about accuracy of any content in this podcast. Listen at your own discretion!

(Prices as of Aug 2023 - we don’t get any money from any of these links, we’re not associated in anyway, we’re just sharing what we use)

Rode PodMic USB - £199 https://rode.com/en/microphones/usb/podmic-usb 

Any Phone, Computer or Tablet with USBC and wireless / mobile internet £200 upwards

Sennheiser HD 25 Headphone £120 (Although any will do really - we’re just a bit snobby) - https://en-uk.sennheiser.com/on-ear-dj-headphone-hd25 

RedCircle £FREE - Currently on the free tier - https://redcircle.com/

ChatGPT £FREE/20/month (although we’re using it less and less) https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt

Claude 2 £FREE https://claude.ai/ 

Squadcast £FREE with Descript (see below)

Google Apps £FREE/5/Month/per user https://workspace.google.com/ 

DeScript £FREE/20/Month (Free would be fine) https://www.descript.com/ 

#ai #chatgpt #claude #podcast #podcasting #transcription #squadcast #descript #ethics #automation

Strap in creatives, In this episode, the Meat Puppets wrestle with AI's potential creative supremacy and the existential threat it poses to analog innovators. Will AI annihilate copyright and render human creativity obsolete?

Or can carbon-based lifeforms somehow co-create with their artificially intelligent overlords? Get ready for a thought-provoking yet lighthearted exploration of humanity's uncertain future in the rise of the creative machines.

Join hosts and co-founders Martin Riley and Paul Billington as they boldly venture into the Wild West world of AI-generated content.

With only their wit and a few bytes of machine learning code, these intrepid pod-pals stake their claim in podcasting's new digital frontier.

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Show Notes & Links

(NB Visit at your own risk - we don’t have any affiliation with these sites)

The Dust Junkys Living in the Pocket of a Drug Queen - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Da6ltT_uSUQ

Bon Jovi - Queen of New Orleans https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMDXJ1Q1jUU

Chorus - listen for the sample! (although its nat a sample)

https://youtu.be/Da6ltT_uSUQ?si=w2b_X5tMeX4ptCo5&t=41

Topics covered:

• Definition and history of copyright/intellectual property law
• How copyright controls reproduction and earns royalties for creators
• Copyright's origins in the book printing press and music recording eras
• Importance of copyright in music, film, TV and other creative industries
• Digital disruption of copyright - from sampling lawsuits to internet piracy
• New revenue models like streaming subscriptions arising alongside copyright chaos
• Principle of fair use that permits unlicensed excerpts for commentary
• Today's threat of AI generative art models like Midjourney, DALL-E and Runway
• How models are trained on vast databases of copyrighted works from the internet
• Uncertainty around legal ownership of AI art based on copyrighted source material
• Current stance that prompt authors own their AI creations, not the models' creators
• Adobe's controversial promise to protect AI art made with their tools from lawsuits
• Case study of musicians unknowingly producing similar songs - inspiration vs plagiarism
• Example of Paul's band having samples blocked, jeopardising releases and revenue
• Rise of synthetic audio like voice cloning and AI composed music
• Copyright erosion's link to falling royalties; creative community's outrage
• Speculation on AI tools enabling copyright theft at scale versus expanding creativity
• Lack of legal precedent and regulation around emergent AI capabilities
• Repeated pivots between optimism and concern regarding AI's impact on copyright

(Prices as of Aug 2023 - we don’t get any money from any of these links, we’re not associated in anyway, we’re just sharing what we use)

Rode PodMic USB - £199 https://rode.com/en/microphones/usb/podmic-usb 

Any Phone, Computer or Tablet with USBC and wireless / mobile internet £200 upwards

Sennheiser HD 25 Headphone £120 (Although any will do really - we’re just a bit snobby) - https://en-uk.sennheiser.com/on-ear-dj-headphone-hd25 

Soundcloud £FREE - Currently on the free tier - https://soundcloud.com/

ChatGPT £FREE/20/month (although we’re using it less and less) https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt

Claude 2 £FREE https://claude.ai/ 

Cleanfeed £FREE/25/month (Although free tier would be fine) https://cleanfeed.net/

Google Apps £FREE/5/Month/per user https://workspace.google.com/ 

DeScript £FREE/20/Month (Free would be fine) https://www.descript.com/ 

Davinci Resolve 18.5 £FREE/245 for studio version (Although we’re not really using any more) https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/uk/products/davinciresolve/studio

Adobe Media Encoder £15/Month but you don’t really need it

• https://www.historyofcopyright.org/ History of copyright
• https://www.midjourney.com/home/ - Midjourney AI art generator
• https://openai.com/dall-e-2 - DALL-E AI art generator
• https://www.adobe.com/creativecloud/photography/discover/ai-generated-content.html - Adobe's AI content policies
• https://www.altered.ai/ - Altered AI voice generation
• https://elevenlabs.io/ - Eleven Labs AI voice generator
• https://www.anthropic.com/ - Anthropic Claude AI
• https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt/ - ChatGPT AI
• https://about.fb.com/news/2023/08/audiocraft-generative-ai-for-music-and-audio/ - Meta's Audiocraft AI music generator
• https://www.similarweb.com/website/gettyimages.com/,overview - Getty Images stock site
• https://www.shutterstock.com/ - Shutterstock stock images/video
• https://www.spotify.com/ - Spotify streaming service
• https://www.ascap.com/help/career-development/getting-paid - ASCAP music royalties guide
• https://www.gov.uk/copyright - UK copyright
• https://www.youtube.com/ - YouTube video platform
• https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/permission-sampled-music-sample-clearance-30165.html

Disclaimer

The Meat Puppets podcast is for entertainment purposes only. Hosts Martin Riley and Paul Billington are experienced media professionals but they are not experts in law, AI or any topics discussed on the show. Listeners should not construe their personal opinions or banter as professional legal advice. All business decisions should be made based on your own independent research and assessment of risks. While delivered with good humour, the hosts make no guarantees about accuracy of any content in this podcast. Listen at your own discretion!

#ai, #artificial intelligence, #machine learning, #copyright, #intellectual property, #ip law, #art, #music, #film, #tv, #creatives, #history, #technology, #digital, #streaming, #subscriptions, #piracy, #fair use, #commentary, #transformation, #midjourney, #dall-e, #runway, #adobe, #ownership, #prompting, #plagiarism, #inspiration, #sampling, #remix, #theft, #generative models,# training data, #internet scraping, #legal #issues,# lawsuits, #uncertainty, #voice cloning, #deepfakes, #synthesized music, #royalties, #ethics, #expanding creativity

Buckle up for a wild ride as savvy media and music dinosaurs Martin Riley and Paul Billington pivot from video production to the brave new world of AI-powered startups! With no prior experience but tons of infectious humor, these intrepid friends chronicle the exhilarating highs and humbling lows of their first fumbling forays into the digital frontier.

You'll hear hilarious stories of stumbling through tech jargon, putting too much trust in questionable AI tools, and making every mistake possible as quickly as possible. It's an honest, no-holds-barred account of two analog veterans trying to stay relevant in the face of lightning-fast technological change.

So plug in and join the hilarity as these wisecracking, big-hearted founders embrace inevitable failure on their way to possible success. It's the startup podcast you've been waiting for - raw, real, and totally irresistible!

Follow us on X: @meatpuppetspod

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Key points covered include:

• Leaving corporate jobs to start a tech entrepreneurial venture
• Pivoting from service-based businesses to product-based
• Funding a startup through personal savings rather than outside capital
• The challenges and mindset shifts of reinventing oneself professionally
• Learning to adopt new technologies like AI quickly
• Documentation of early startup journey through podcast
• Using AI tools like Claude and ChatGPT to assist with startup activities
• Experimenting with AI for content creation like podcast episode outlines
• Unlearning lessons from running previous service companies
• Embracing remote work and distributed teams
• The need for constant reskilling to keep up with technological change
• Transition from linear to non-linear career paths
• Psychological struggles of being a beginner again professionally
• Advantages of entering new industries as an outsider
• Bringing analog experience into the digital world
• Ongoing startup challenges like generating revenue
• Mistakes and stumbling associated with the startup and learning journey

Listener Warning!

The Meat Puppets podcast is for entertainment purposes only. Hosts Martin Riley and Paul Billington are experienced media professionals but they are not experts in law, AI or any topics discussed on the show. Listeners should not construe their personal opinions or banter as professional legal advice. All business decisions should be made based on your own independent research and assessment of risks. While delivered with good humour, the hosts make no guarantees about accuracy of any content in this podcast. Listen at your own discretion!

Equipment Used

(Prices as of Aug 2023 - we don’t get any money from any of these links, we’re not associated in anyway, we’re just sharing what we use)

Rode PodMic USB - £199 rode.com/en/microphones/usb/podmic-usb

Any Phone, Computer or Tablet with USBC and wireless / mobile internet £200 upwards

Sennheiser HD 25 Headphone £120 (Although any will do really - we’re just a bit snobby) - en-uk.sennheiser.com/on-ear-dj-headphone-hd25

Web Services used

Redcircle £FREE - https://redcircle.com/

ChatGPT £FREE/20/month (although we’re using it less and less) openai.com/blog/chatgpt

Claude 2 £FREE claude.ai/

Cleanfeed £FREE/25/month (Although free tier would be fine) cleanfeed.net/

Google Apps £FREE/5/Month/per user workspace.google.com/

Software Tools Used

DeScript £FREE/20/Month (Free would be fine) www.descript.com/

Davinci Resolve 18.5 £FREE/245 for studio version (Although we’re not really using any more) www.blackmagicdesign.com/uk/products/…solve/studio