A chat about AI and its impact on small craft businesses

Hannah chatted to Jamie Chalmers (aka Mr X Stitch and part time tech curio) about the basics of AI and how it can be made useful in day to day small business life already.

While we touched briefly upon the question of copyright and the doom mongering in the press, this session is largely a light hearted exploration, shining a light on the basics of what’s out there and how those tools can help you right now.

Click below to watch the recording. Relevant links that are mentioned during the session can also be found below including a link to Jamie’s podcast…

Links:

You can see and hear more from Jamie here:

www.mrxstitch.com, https://xstitchmag.com/modern-cross-stitch-magazine/, www.needl.exchange

Referenced in the video:

https://www.ben-evans.com - ‘What Matters in Tech’ - insightful knowledge written in a way that a lay person can understand

https://www.helen-perry.co.uk/resources/new-71-chat-gpt-prompts-for-creative-unboring-marketing/ - Helen Perry - Marketing for Busy People

https://www.eldagsen.com/sony-world-photography-awards-2023/ The example of Boris Eldagsen’s photography at the Sony World Photography Awards is explained well on his own website but this is also a great place to read about how to be honest about the collaboration of AI with creatives and calls his own work #promptphotography

https://londonwebgirl.com - Cheryl Laidlaw featured in the Small Business Britain AI chat last week and had some good insight on ways to get the best from ChatGPT.

ChatGPT can be access via https://chat.openai.com

Midjourney is the image generator that we were discussing https://www.midjourney.com/home/ (As we touched on, this is hosted on a site called Discord and you have to have a free Discord account to be able to access it https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/360033931551-Getting-Started Currently there is no free option for Discord)

Matt Wolfe on YouTube - https://www.futuretools.io/