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Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain & Creative Content

Join local author and AI expert, Karen Kilroy, and explore the future for creative content now that artificial intelligence has entered the chat.

The ease of sharing digital media has made it challenging for artists, musicians, writers and other creatives to be paid fairly for their work. Lately, the problem has compounded because creative content is being absorbed into artificial intelligence (AI) models. This means that anyone can create similar content, without any attribution or royalties for the original content owner. For example, you can use one of the popular image creators like DALL-E and instruct it to paint a picture of how Sigmund Freud might envision social media, in a style similar to Jean-Michel Basquiat. While intriguing, fakes like these dilute brands, devalue work, and create confusion.

In this workshop, we will explore how blockchain can be used to protect content creator rights, how AI systems could be designed to rely on blockchain controls, and how artists could audit content usage using blockchain. 

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Karen Kilroy is a life-long technologist with heart, as well as a full-stack software engineer, speaker, and author living in Northwest Arkansas. Karen has written three books, Blockchain Tethered AI (2023), Blockchain as a Service (2019), and AI and the Law (2021). As CEO of Kilroy Blockchain, Karen has invented several products, including FLO, CASEY, Kilroy Blockchain PaaS, CARNAK, and RILEY, an AI mobile app that won the IBM Watson Build award for North America in 2017. Karen and Lynn Riley were selected as recipients of a National Science Foundation research grant in 2018 and focused their studies on autonomous vehicles. Karen was selected as a 2022 recipient of the Life Works Here award by the Northwest Arkansas council, is studying agriculture and music at the University of Arkansas, and is a four-time IBM Champion. Karen is also a professional dragon boat coach.

Attendees will get a free 30-day subscription to O'Reilly Learning Platform to read Karen Kilroy's books.

This is not your run-of-the-mill lecture, and you do not want to miss this one!

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