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    AI and the Creator Economy with Karen X Cheng

    Karen X Cheng, Steph Smith

    Digital creator Karen Chang discusses her strategic pivot from failed startup ventures to a million-follower career by leveraging AI tools like Midjourney and Stable Diffusion to pioneer the first AI-generated Cosmopolitan cover. Chang argues that while algorithms now favor interest graphs over social connections and AI will commoditize average creator labor, the industry's future value will shift from technical execution to high-level creativity and ethical collaboration between humans and machines. She warns that while corporate adoption of generative AI is currently a marketing gimmick, it will soon become a standard workflow, necessitating new economic models where human direction remains the primary driver of compensation.