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Welcome to AI Fluency for creative work

Lesson 115 min
In this lessonBy the end, you’ll be able to
  • Understand who this course is for and what it will and won't do
  • Recognize the course's central stance: begin without AI, and let analysis determine whether and how to opt in
  • Name the concerns this course is designed to help you navigate

Welcome to AI Fluency for Creative Work

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Welcome to AI Fluency for Creative Work · 5 min

SummaryTranscript

This video frames the moment creators are in and sets the central stance of the course: begin with no AI use, and from there use the analytical tools introduced in the course to make informed, intentional decisions about AI use in your creative practice.

Key takeaways

  • The starting place is no AI; using the tools in this course, you determine whether and how to use AI in your practice.
  • "No AI" and "AI integration" are both legitimate outcomes. What matters is that the outcome is the result of analysis, not a default.
  • The work of the course is upstream of prompting: by the time you write a prompt, the important decisions have already been made.

The course builds in stages, each adding a tool you will use on your own work.

Exercises

Starting Position Snapshot

Before you work through the course, capture where you stand today. In a few honest notes, describe your current relationship to AI in your creative work, name which of the five concerns resonates most and the experience or fear behind it, and write one sentence on what you want to be able to do by the end. You will return to this snapshot in the final lesson to see what changed.

Your gut stance. In one paragraph, describe your current relationship to AI in your creative work: curious, hostile, already using it, avoiding it, conflicted, whatever is true. Don't polish it.

Part I: Which concern is yours? The video named five patterns. Which resonates most, and what specific experience or fear sits behind it?

  • Authenticity anxiety
  • Dependence
  • Settling for good enough
  • Slop fatigue and guilt by association
  • "What I do is worthless"

Part II: What you want. Write one sentence: "By the end of this course, I want to be able to..."

Lesson reflection

  • Where did your current stance on AI come from: analysis, experience, or the surrounding discourse?

What's next

In the next lesson, we pick up the first analytical tool: the Creative Value Lens, which gives you vocabulary for what your work is for.