E27 - Brooke Howard-Smith on AI & Web3 in the Creator Economy

Brooke Howard-Smith is the founder of Otterfish that is at the heart of the creator economy and influencer marketing. He's also a cofounder of Non-Fungible Labs which is now a part of Futureverse. Brooke and I broadly cover what's happening with AI and how its affecting everything digital and where Web3 fits in. We jump right in Brooke is talking about everyone leveraging what they love, being commercial and non commercial at the same time in the creator economy.

Timestamps:

00:00 intro  00:56 monetizing & creator economy 05:15 web3 12:26 spotify, superapps, & AI 18:15 instagram & influence marketing 23:08 client AI tools in the creator economy  28:40 personal AI use  38:46 non fungible labs 41:55 fluf launch & futureverse 46:22 gemini's mis-launch 51:58 rapidfire 1:02:31 fin

Some notes from the show:

• Gino the Ghost on music https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb2NG6NWyhjisymBWg8aSXQ 
• Kurzweil's singularity https://www.singularity.com/ 
• Otterfish https://otterfish.com/ 
• Brian Armstrong AI use https://twitter.com/brian_armstrong/status/1779946210226577913 
• Futureverse https://www.futureverse.com/ 
• unstoppable art machine https://www.instagram.com/unstoppableartmachine/?hl=en 
• fluf launch https://nfts.wtf/what-the-fluf-3d-bunnies-break-the-blockchain/ 
• Gemini's mis-launch https://www.wired.com/story/google-gemini-woke-ai-image-generation/ 
• Asian shopping https://youtu.be/p3RhRB3YJks?si=M-y5cZab34sQ3Q5G 
• Ready Player One announcement https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/ready-player-one-metaverse-warner-bros-discovery-1235862190/ 
• Golden https://heresgolden.com/ 

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