In the last several months, the internet has become alight with chatter about ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence chatbot developed by OpenAI and which launched just in November 2022.  In the first month of its launch, ChatGPT had more than 57 million monthly users, and OpenAI reports that 13 million individual active users visited ChatGPT per day as of January 2023. 

AI for personal casual use has just crested into public consciousness (raise your hand if you too have problematically (though unknowingly) used AI to generate artistic portraits of yourself), but hundreds of industries have been using AI across the supply chain from ideation to shipment and distribution. 

Yasmeen Collins is a Muslim fashion designer who co-founded an AI-driven fashion startup called “AI Made This”, which uses artificial intelligence to generate the patterns and designs that are then printed onto fabric and hand-made into streetwear and modest-friendly garments in Yasmeen’s little studio in New York City. 

I’m high key obsessed with how technology, faith, and futurism, that is, the study of what our future might look like, all intersect, and that was kind of the impetus for this podcast. I went into this conversation with Yasmeen absolutely bursting with questions about how faith will be expressed in this new technological era, how we’ll come to terms with what beauty and the human spirit mean in a world where a computer can produce and sell high-quality artwork, and most specifically, how inner and outer modesty can express itself as a practice under these conditions. 

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For listeners who don’t want to hear music, there will be a bit just before the credits, so feel free to skip ahead to the next episode at that point. 

Let’s begin.

REFERENCES:

Follow AI Made This:

https://madethis.ai/collections/all

https://www.instagram.com/ai.madethis/
https://www.tiktok.com/@aimadethis

ChatGPT:

https://blog.gitnux.com/chat-gpt-statistics/#:~:text=Chat%20GPT%20was%20launched%20on,one%20week%20of%20its%20launch. 

Learn more about GLITCH from MIT:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4M6mqg_3JXg

Discover other ways AI and Fashion intersect:

https://thetechfashionista.com/ai-in-the-fashion-industry/

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Closing music is “Little Tongues Chattering” by Ryan Webber, available on Onomatopoeia via the Katuktu Collective. 

Cover art is by Kalakal: 

https://www.kalakal-illustration.com/

https://www.instagram.com/kalakal_klk/