YOUNG CREATIVES AND AI—WHY TECHNOLOGY ISN’T COMING FOR OUR JOBS

Have you heard of Dispo? Dispo is a disposable camera app that lets you take digital photos with a polaroid filter. I use it religiously to take portrait photos of my friends and strangers.?

I’ve taken hundreds of Dispo portraits and almost every single one comes out spectacular, with zero editing whatsoever. Many people have even commented “that’s the best photo ever taken of me.”??

I’d like to think I’m a skilled photographer. But I’m not. I’ve never taken a formal photography class. I know nothing about photography principles. I don’t own a high-quality camera.

I’m just a guy with a camera on his mobile phone. A guy with a tool that unlocks creative skills I didn’t even know I had.

What does Dispo have to do with the future of creativity?

It’s that the future of creativity involves technology.?

I wrote a piece in Adage about why AI is not coming for creative jobs --

• about how technology takes longer than we think
• about how it can never replace true creativity
• about how it can make us better creatives instead

Read it here:

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