🌊 Marc Hemeon Is Generative AI the end of Designers?

Marc at his home and studio space. Photo by Justin Rosenberg

Marc Hemeon is a designer, artist, surfer and entrepreneur. Marc was the Head of Creative and Digital for Kosas, worked at Meta AI to design and conceptualize emerging products and technologies and co-founded a number of companies including fflick, which YouTube acquired in 2011.

We discuss Marc’s design work at Meta, how AI is impacting designers and artists, the creative process with and without AI, use cases for the latest Generative AI tools and wider implications of how AI is changing the way we live, work and interact with each other.

Detailed Breakdown:

⏱ 0:35 What Marc did at Meta AI

⏱ 5:10 Is AI the end of Designers?

⏱ 6:00 What is art anyway?

⏱ 8:50 Marc’s Reaction to Generative AI art

⏱ 17:32 Why Marc thinks that People are Scared of AI

⏱ 18:47 Marc’s Creative Process

⏱ 19:32 Why do we create?

⏱ 20:52 How to use ChatGPT to Write Blogs Authentically

⏱ 22:35 Marc’s HeartYou Monomyth Project using Midjourney

⏱ 23:30 ChatGPT for Ads 

⏱ 27:33 What ChatGPT Refused to Do

⏱ 30:17 Launching Facebook Captions Powered by AI

⏱ 32:11 TikTok’s Beauty Filters

⏱ 34:04 Are we turning into humans from WALL·E?

Where to find Marc:

• Marc’s Oil Paintings

• Waveblocks 

• Twitter: @hemeon

• Instagram: @hemeon

• LinkedIn

Where to find Natalia:

• Twitter

• LinkedIn

Where to find Ashita:

• Twitter

• Fantoons

• LinkedIn

Referenced:

• Prompt Hunt

• Heart You (@XXHeartYou) / Twitter 

• Monomyth 

• The Genius Zone: The Breakthrough Process to End Negative Thinking and Live in True Creativity

• Marc’s son loves Kaiju

AI Tools: 

• Midjourney

• ChatGPT