
Explore how to use ChatGPT and Dall-E as creative professionals, write great prompts, and champion original ideas while addressing ethics, plagiarism, bias, transparency, and IP considerations.
Discover how AI tools like ChatGPT, Dall-E 2, Jasper, and Midjourney augment creativity without replacing artists, emphasizing human perspective and critical thinking as essential.
Discover how OpenAI's ChatGPT and Dall-E 2 generate human-like text and imagery using deep learning. Examine the ethical and legal considerations that arise from their use.
Demonstrates ChatGPT's simple interface—from quick OpenAI login to managing conversations, dark mode, and prompts—as you draft a mystery prompt with Detective Jackson and Hollywood actors.
Explore Dall-E 2's minimalist interface—upload images, write prompts, view history and collections, and use outpainting and variations to craft and extend visuals.
Explore how Dall-E 2 uses a text-to-image interface atop GPT-3, how ChatGPT runs on GPT-3.5, and how GPT-4 introduces multimodal capabilities that handle text or image prompts.
Explore the strengths and limitations of generative AI and learn how to distinguish appropriate uses at work. Shape the future of creativity with responsible AI choices.
Train AI to produce content at scale in seconds, using ChatGPT and Dall-E to create brand-voice aligned product descriptions and social posts, guided by copywriters for fast, consistent output.
Revise your original content with AI by summarizing and rewriting from another character’s perspective, then edit images with Dall-E to match client feedback.
Use AI to break through creative block by generating first drafts and endless variations. Explore with Dall-E's 'surprise me' and 'variations' features to spark inspiration, test directions, and styles.
Explore the limitations of AI in generating and revising creative work, its potential usefulness in the creative process, and the ongoing improvements and major version updates.
AI models pull from a finite knowledge base, so even large databases may fail on prompts needing real-time data. ChatGPT's data ends in September 2021, limiting real-time discussion.
Assess AI output reliability by tracing information provenance and its impact on credibility, and learn to verify sources, cite evidence, and conduct independent research with real-time data.
Understand plagiarism and content provenance risks in ai outputs and identify bias from training data. Use plagiarism detectors, reverse image search, and bias checks before publishing.
AI content requires manual refinement after generation, with DALL·E often misplacing typography and text, and ChatGPT producing natural but imperfect writing that benefits from human editing and design.
Learn how AI apps can glitch or go down, highlighting AI's early-stage nature. Plan timelines with breathing room for technical difficulties, including paid tiers that deprioritize free users.
AI works in a vacuum; text and art must collaborate to create a greater whole, while AI lacks context and continuity, requiring human guidance.
Master prompt engineering by applying four simple tips to craft prompts that reliably elicit higher quality output from generative AI, recognizing that input drives output and control the algorithm.
Be specific in prompts by detailing format, subject, tone, and guardrails to guide ai output, and apply your human understanding and subject matter expertise to compare two levels of specificity.
Describe the subject and the style to guide AI prompts, using general artistic terms rather than specific artists, boosting results and addressing bias as a quick proof of concept.
Provide context in prompts to shape output; be specific, creative, and descriptive, giving character details and a clear direction to guide ChatGPT and Dall-E toward more original results.
Iterate beyond the first AI prompt to push the concept toward more creative, smarter, on-brand outcomes. Act as AI's creative director, adding your originality to bring your vision to life.
Explore why AI systems are biased, stemming from human perspectives and biased training data, and learn to recognize and mitigate biased outputs in real-world apps like GPT-4 and Firefly.
Explore how bias infiltrates AI systems through real-world cases like Amazon's hiring tool and biased facial recognition, and learn why diverse training data matters.
Address AI bias in creative work by designing detailed prompts to counteract bias, evaluating outputs for assumptions, and applying diversity training and developer feedback to improve models.
Explore three AI legal buckets—data sets, tools, and outputs—and learn how copyright, licensing, ownership, and human authorship affect creative work with AI.
Learn how ownership, authorship, and licensing rights evolve with AI tools like Midjourney and ChatGPT, and why reading terms, drafting contracts, and documenting prompts protect creators.
Navigate the ethics and legalities of style references in AI art and text tools, and learn to blend styles while executing your own ideas.
Explore intentional plagiarism in AI-assisted creation, examine ownership debates, and learn to protect originality by screening candidates, mentoring teams, clarifying AI roles, and conducting upfront research.
Develop transparent AI guidelines early, label all AI-generated work, and align your team on how these tools should be used to avoid plagiarism, bias, and ownership issues.
Compare free and paid AI app plans, including ChatGPT with GPT-4, Dall•E credits, and Midjourney subscriptions, and weigh ownership terms, plagiarism checks, and AI-detection tools for professional use.
Budget for AI training resources beyond app costs by consulting an IP attorney, a DEI consultant, and an ethical technology specialist to navigate evolving laws, address bias, and uphold transparency.
address the risk of ai devaluing creative work by selling creative thinking as the main deliverable, highlighting critical thinking, context evaluation, and emotional understanding to create relatable, valuable briefs.
Define the idea and its execution as the backbone of great creative work, and note how AI tools like ChatGPT and Dall-E lack the human insight that gives originality.
This case study contrasts idea and execution using Heinz's campaign, showing how human insight drives the idea while AI aids the execution with Dall-E.
Harness ai tools like Dall-E and ChatGPT to free up time, focus on developing the concept, and preserve the human touch—empathy, gut instincts, and passion.
This course uses ChatGPT and Dall-E to explain the ins and outs of generative AI for professional creatives that plan to integrate these programs into their workflow. Since this course is geared towards creatives, we'll learn tips and tricks that lead to better quality creative output, but we’ll also dive into the ethical, legal and financial issues that you need to know when using these programs professionally.
By the end of this course, you'll know how to position your creative thinking as the true selling point for any client, and leverage AI's executional power to bring your ideas to life faster and easier than you ever thought possible.
We'll use ChatGPT and Dall-E to guide us, but this course applies to all large language models, so not only will you be ready to integrate these popular programs today, but you'll also be set for what's to come.
Introduction: We'll get acquainted with the basic terminology and concepts of generative AI
Understand how AI will never be able to replace creative thinking
Learn how to use ChatGPT and Dall-E to answer creative prompts
Discuss the historical context of technology and creativity, and how innovations in AI are just adding more tools to our toolbox
When (and When Not) to Use AI: We'll discuss how to identify great use cases for AI within the creative process, and go through the limitations of these programs to avoid problematic AI output
Explore AI's capabilities to make complex revisions to your work easier and more efficient
Use AI when experiencing a creative block to generate variations of your work, inspiring new ideas and directions to explore
Leverage AI for rapid content generation to create quality creative at scale
Examine how AI can adapt to different creative styles and brand voices, allowing you to work efficiently with multiple clients or projects
Identify and address potential issues such as copyright concerns, limitations in the training data, bias, and plagiarism, and learn strategies to mitigate these challenges
Prompt Engineering: We'll learn techniques to communicate with AI models so you get better quality creative output
Craft specific prompts that provide clear direction and result in more focused and relevant AI-generated content.
Develop the skill of adjusting and refining AI-generated content with iterative feedback to enhance creativity, originality, and alignment with your vision.
AI & Bias: We'll go through strategies to recognize and correct AI bias in your work
Understand the concept of bias and how it presents in AI output
Learn techniques to address and prevent it
Ask an Attorney: We'll meet with guest expert, IP and technology attorney Franklin Graves, to talk through key legal concepts as they relate to creatives using AI
Understand the ‘human authorship’ requirement for copyright protection, and the importance of keeping it top of mind throughout your process
Develop the ability to articulate a creative vision for AI-generated content, without infringing on other artists’ signature styles
Learn about creative ownership, trademark, plagiarism and copyright issues with AI-generated content
Transparency: We'll explain the importance of transparency with AI-generated content
Walk through examples of effective AI guidelines
Explain how to design AI guidelines that sell your creative thinking
Financial implications: We'll analyze the financial impact of integrating these programs into your business, from tangibles like the cost of apps and subscriptions, to less predictable factors like the potential devaluation of creative work
Sell Your Creative Thinking: We'll zoom out and see how all the pieces come together by examining the creative process as a whole and looking at a case study that shows how brilliantly AI can work for us.
While many people are saying that AI will threaten creative jobs, the truth is that real creative thinking has never been more important than it is now. This course will explain why, and show you how to use ChatGPT and Dall-E to champion your unique creative perspective and win business in the age of AI. Let's get started!