Engineering Creative AI

What if you could train DALL-E 23 times faster by adding a single token? That's RACK, and it's almost free. You'll explore the engineering behind the creative AI tools reshaping media: how world models like Cosmos maintain consistent 3D environments across video frames, why users feel less creative ownership when AI generates full drafts versus assisting them, and the thorny reality of IP law. Is "perceptual similarity" the same as copyright infringement? Should we care about "Fairly Trained" versus "Fairly Deployed"? This episode demystifies the systems creating the images and videos flooding your feeds. Topics Covered - RACK: 23x faster diffusion training (almost zero cost!) - Grafting: modifying trained models without starting over - World models for consistent video generation - Physics integration in creative AI - IP and copyright: Fairly Trained vs. Fairly Deployed - Human-AI collaboration dynamics - Why perceptual similarity ≠ legal liability