Learn why AI is changing creative work in unexpected ways. Mignon Fogarty and Jane Friedman look at the delightful small uses of AI (like generating puns and learning Spanish through custom rock songs), then dive into the serious stuff:

Spotify's new anti-slop policy
The $1.5 billion Anthropic book settlement
Why your publisher might owe you money
The crucial difference between "YOLO" AI models and reasoning models that could transform your results
What 900+ professions reveal about society's moral boundaries around AI replacement

Resources Mentioned:

AI Sidequest Newsletter → https://aisidequest.com

Jane's Newsletters → https://JaneFriedman.com

Get Clean URL → https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/get-clean-url/mobpimjmmonkghndllikpdgpapkfckje

Tab Copy → https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/tab-copy/micdllihgoppmejpecmkilggmaagfdmb

Mignon's Spanish Song on Suno → https://suno.com/s/mIoIvVr1DXRldhQU

Christopher Penn's LinkedIn Post → https://www.linkedin.com/posts/cspenn_ai-generativeai-genai-activity-7381662838051991553-phvo

Ethan Mollick's LinkedIn Post → https://www.linkedin.com/posts/emollick_an-issue-with-ai-is-that-it-is-almost-intuitive-activity-7382079797260156928-7Cx9

Anthropic Settlement Database → https://secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/

"Moral Repugnance" Study → https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5560401

Small AI wins that actually matter: garlic puns to Spanish rock songs