Content Creation University
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ELE-401 Elective Year Four Electives

AI Tools for Creators

Scripting, editing, ideation, and thumbnail workflows with AI — capabilities and honest limits.

Lectures
8
Total runtime
5h 56m
Attendance minimum
2h 58m
Prerequisites
None

Lecture Playlist

Ordered as a teaching progression, not by popularity. Attendance is recorded once half of a lecture has been watched.

  1. The AI revolution: Myths, risks, and opportunities Clearing the hype: what these systems actually are before deciding what to do with them Harvard Business School 1 Ivy League 23 min
  2. 9: Generative AI – Large Language Models (LLMs) and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) The mechanism behind every scripting tool: next-word prediction, and grounding it with retrieval MIT OpenCourseWare 2 Peer institution 74 min
  3. Evaluation: Factuality and Hallucination The honest limit: why fluent output and true output are different things, and how factuality is measured Generative AI at MIT 2 Peer institution 16 min
  4. 11: Generative AI – Text-to-Image Models The mechanism behind every thumbnail and asset tool: text-conditional diffusion MIT OpenCourseWare 2 Peer institution 76 min
  5. Stanford Webinar - How [You] Can Use ChatGPT to Increase Your Creative Output Working with the tool: AI as an ideation collaborator inside a creative process Stanford Online 2 Peer institution 59 min
  6. Creativity in the Age of AI: Generative AI Issues in Art Copyright & Open Source The legal limit: training data, fair use, style, and what a generated asset actually is Stanford HAI 2 Peer institution 41 min
  7. Wharton's Ethan Mollick & Stefano Puntoni – AI Horizons: Co-Intelligence The professional posture: how to actually work alongside these systems, and where the human stays in the loop Wharton School 1 Ivy League 47 min
  8. Practicum · working creator People say this tool will replace me, so I made a movie with it. A working VFX artist gives himself one week to make a finished short film with the AI tool people told him would replace him, and shows exactly which parts it did and which parts still needed him. Lecture 7's co-intelligence and Lecture 1's "power tool, not an agent," tested against a deadline and a deliverable Corridor Crew P Practitioner 20 min

Every course reserves one practicum seat, listed last and marked P. It is filled by someone who has shipped the work — here, Corridor Crew — because the university lectures establish why something works and the practicum shows it being done under real constraints.

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