Mick Champayne

In an era of AI-generated imagery and algorithm-driven design, it’s hard not to imagine a dystopian future for creatives. I’ve spent the last year with clenched buttcheeks bombarded with headlines of robots coming for our jobs, the alarming proliferation of new tools (and required upskilling), and a looming existential question of what it even means to be a creative.

In this talk, I’ll share how I harnessed that fear and anxiety in a productive and meaningful way, merging my creative process with machine learning, getting out of my burnout, and reframing generative AI to be a collaborator and not *the enemy*.