Speaker 1: It's nine O gen one engine with Jenny Garth and
Speaker 1: Tory spelling.
Speaker 2: This is so exciting, you guys.
Speaker 1: His celebrity baby videos have gone viral, including the one
Speaker 1: he made of our Beverly Hills nine two and oh cast,
Speaker 1: which we're all obsessed with right.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, us as babies.
Speaker 1: Yes, we're so excited to chat with the talented content
Speaker 1: creator Michael Waller of junk BOXAI dot com, who is
Speaker 1: doing amazing things with artificial intelligence. Today we're going to
Speaker 1: pick his brain about everything AI. Welcome Michael Waller to
Speaker 1: the nine O two one OG podcast.
Speaker 4: Hi Toy, Hi Jenny.
Speaker 2: Hi Mike. Good to have you. Okay, this is this
Speaker 2: is wild.
Speaker 4: We we know this is wild. You guys have any.
Speaker 3: Thanks for making us relevant on social media again.
Speaker 2: Oh my god your posting.
Speaker 1: Your post had us group chatting and laughing so hard
Speaker 1: and just loving what you did for everybody that doesn't
Speaker 1: know there was a post put up. You made this
Speaker 1: with AI, I'm assuming and then it was the cast
Speaker 1: when they were babies, and this is our cast.
Speaker 2: Is not the first cast that you've done this.
Speaker 5: For right now, I've done quite a few. Now, it's
Speaker 5: hundreds of babies at this point.
Speaker 3: Hundreds of babies junk boxai dot com.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's your website.
Speaker 3: I couldn't stop watching it.
Speaker 4: No, yeah, and actually, let's see how many views does
Speaker 4: it happen?
Speaker 5: Now?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah?
Speaker 3: How many?
Speaker 5: Five million views on my page? Over sixty one thousand shares,
Speaker 5: So everybody can't stop watching it apparently.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Some you watch over and over and you're like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, look how cute they were when they're babies.
Speaker 1: But I told us that he wasn't chubby like that
Speaker 1: as a baby. He was really skinny.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh. And for me, I wish I look
Speaker 3: like that as a baby. You are so shute, and
Speaker 3: so were you. I couldn't. Oh my god.
Speaker 5: And it kind of takes the adult features and brings
Speaker 5: it kind of like, you know, twenty years or you know,
Speaker 5: it's pretty great.
Speaker 2: What gave you the idea to do this?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 5: I experiment with a lot of different art styles on
Speaker 5: my page. If you scroll down past the babies, you'll
Speaker 5: see a bunch of different styles of animation. I've been
Speaker 5: kind of experimenting with different styles for the past two
Speaker 5: and a half years now with that page, and I
Speaker 5: just kind of landed on that, but I gave it
Speaker 5: a shot. I wound up doing a piece with a
Speaker 5: bunch of iconic celebrities like Snoop dog Bruce Lee, Mike Tyson,
Speaker 5: Leonardo DiCaprio, and I put it out on my page
Speaker 5: just just like a random post. I didn't really think
Speaker 5: about making much of a campaign out of it, and
Speaker 5: I randomly collabsed Snoop Dogg on it because he's collaborated
Speaker 5: with me on a few posts, randomly like I'll just
Speaker 5: you know, how you can add somebody as a collaborator.
Speaker 4: I added him as a collaborate on it. Within ten minutes,
Speaker 4: he collaborated.
Speaker 5: On it, and it got such an awesome reaction and
Speaker 5: it went like megaviral.
Speaker 4: So I was like, I gotta do this again.
Speaker 5: Did it again, and then it went just as viral,
Speaker 5: and I was like, all right, I got something here,
Speaker 5: And then I just kind of kept trying it out
Speaker 5: to see like how long or how many babies I
Speaker 5: could do before people got sick of them, and and they're.
Speaker 2: Not sick of it.
Speaker 3: They want more and more.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, the friends cast video that you did
Speaker 1: got what eighty million?
Speaker 5: Yeah, almost almost ad eighty million views, you know, what's
Speaker 5: crazy about that video?
Speaker 3: Film?
Speaker 4: Ok, there's a statistic about that video that blew my mind.
Speaker 5: So that video has sixteen years watch time and it's
Speaker 5: like a fifteen second video.
Speaker 4: Wow, So that means that it's out for like.
Speaker 1: People left, people spent fifteen sixteen what'd you say, sixteen years?
Speaker 2: Sixteen years of their life?
Speaker 5: Well, if you have a yeah, accumulatively, it's sixteen years
Speaker 5: of time that people have spent watching the video, which
Speaker 5: blows my mind.
Speaker 2: Does that like just get you so excited and want
Speaker 2: to do it?
Speaker 3: Really?
Speaker 4: Does? It motivates me a lot.
Speaker 5: It makes me want to stay up all night just
Speaker 5: cranking out these babies.
Speaker 1: I'm glad you're cranking out babies on the internet because yeah,
Speaker 1: that would be too many babies for you.
Speaker 3: What's next? Are you going to keep doing babies?
Speaker 5: That's a good question. For now, I'm gonna I think
Speaker 5: it's gonna be a baby filled spring for me. I
Speaker 5: just launched this. I know the context of it, it's
Speaker 5: kind of weird, but I just launched this book, the
Speaker 5: junk Box Baby Book, and that's kind of brand new.
Speaker 5: So even although I've been doing the babies for like
Speaker 5: maybe a month now, the book still has a lot
Speaker 5: of uh kind of work ahead of it before I,
Speaker 5: uh kind of start something else. So I think I'm
Speaker 5: going to run that campaign for spring, and I'm also
Speaker 5: going to experiment with some other stuff. But honestly, I
Speaker 5: usually just kind of it come to me naturally, and
Speaker 5: when I feel like doing something different, if my audience
Speaker 5: reacts to it, I'll.
Speaker 4: Continue to do it. And so far they just keep
Speaker 4: asking for babies.
Speaker 5: So that's pretty much that's all that's in my sights
Speaker 5: for now.
Speaker 2: I mean, what you do is so cool.
Speaker 1: We hear everybody hears about AI, and you know, being
Speaker 1: as gifted as you are at using it, should we
Speaker 1: be scared of it all?
Speaker 2: I mean, what's your take on.
Speaker 3: That in the future we never going to work again.
Speaker 3: Just break it down for us.
Speaker 4: No, I don't think that so.
Speaker 5: Like, I have a pretty extensive background in traditional videography
Speaker 5: before I did, before I became an AI visual creator,
Speaker 5: I shot a lot of videos, music videos, short films, commercials,
Speaker 5: and advertisements. When social media reels became popular, I kind
Speaker 5: of moved on to doing that. But I will tell
Speaker 5: you from my experience, you can't really replace like traditional
Speaker 5: videography with AI not yet at least, and I don't
Speaker 5: think anytime soon. Creators like myself are are good at
Speaker 5: figuring out what AI is good at and capable of,
Speaker 5: and then.
Speaker 4: Kind of working within that pocket.
Speaker 5: But there's so many as as many things as AI
Speaker 5: is capable of, there's even more that it's not capable of.
Speaker 5: Going back to your question about it being scary and
Speaker 5: kind of like is it destructive, I think that in
Speaker 5: the wrong hands, I think it definitely can be misieused.
Speaker 4: Well, I mean, like.
Speaker 5: Well even even in terms of just like general CG
Speaker 5: people have been able to kind of do what we're
Speaker 5: doing with AI for years now.
Speaker 4: It's just that we're able to do it a lot faster.
Speaker 2: Yeah, how long does it take to make a baby video?
Speaker 4: I do about one baby video a night.
Speaker 5: It takes me about four hours from conception to the
Speaker 5: final kind of run through, and then sometimes it takes
Speaker 5: a little bit longer. But the longest part actually is
Speaker 5: creating the data sets. Like so like for you guys,
Speaker 5: for example, to create a data set, which is pretty
Speaker 5: mu it's just like a it's like a hard drive
Speaker 5: full of information that I feed to an AI model
Speaker 5: to pretty much understand what it is that makes up
Speaker 5: Tory and Jenny. So like for you guys, I went
Speaker 5: on Google and I just typed in Tory spelling Jenny Garth,
Speaker 5: and I downloaded fifty images of Toy, fifty images of Jenny,
Speaker 5: and then I trained an AI data set. It's called
Speaker 5: a Laura, that's the technical technical term for it.
Speaker 4: Sorry, Laura, Yeah, Laura l r A.
Speaker 5: It's an acronym for something, but I can't remember what
Speaker 5: it is. And then when you're done with that, you
Speaker 5: essentially have the ability to kind of type in whatever
Speaker 5: you want and then get an image that's based on
Speaker 5: the data that you trained it on. So like if
Speaker 5: I was to say, create me a baby Tory, it
Speaker 5: would use Tory's face and create a baby. If I
Speaker 5: was to say, create me a medieval kind of hammer.
Speaker 3: Stream to put postnoes job or like like that.
Speaker 4: No, to answer that question, really, it really all depends
Speaker 4: on the.
Speaker 2: Content knows it's perfect.
Speaker 3: I loved it, yeh, you guys.
Speaker 5: Data sets came out flawless, so there was no extra
Speaker 5: tweaking or anything I had to do to those.
Speaker 2: Well, you captivated us.
Speaker 4: It's funny though.
Speaker 5: Last night I actually put together an animation to kind
Speaker 5: of show you a little bit more of kind of
Speaker 5: what can be done with AI. Since I already had
Speaker 5: your data sets, I figured it'd be cool to kind
Speaker 5: of make something to show you guys here today at
Speaker 5: some data sets.
Speaker 2: I'm so impressed, so very personal.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 2: It's got flustered blush, Mike, tell me again, what was that?
Speaker 3: Is it?
Speaker 2: Software?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 5: So there's a bunch of different programs that I use.
Speaker 5: The main one to generate images. It's actually a developer
Speaker 5: tool called flux f l u X. But I think
Speaker 5: what you were asking was was the technical term for
Speaker 5: the data set is called.
Speaker 4: A Laura Laura.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Okay, A lot of this stuff is really a
Speaker 5: lot of the information that I'm talking about is it's
Speaker 5: all available on the internet. If anybody in the in
Speaker 5: your audience wants to learn about this stuff, you can
Speaker 5: easily just find it by typing in image generation or
Speaker 5: data set creation and then like wright AI after that
Speaker 5: and you'll see thousands of videos.
Speaker 4: I have a couple of videos up too.
Speaker 3: There's so many apps, though, how do you know which
Speaker 3: one's worthwhile for the beginner?
Speaker 5: That's the secret sauce, and you, guys happen to be
Speaker 5: with the experts, so the best.
Speaker 4: Ones to use right now? If you do, you guys
Speaker 4: use tchatchipt rarely.
Speaker 5: Okaypt is a very commonly used AI software.
Speaker 4: So I figured you guys might know that.
Speaker 3: We're traditional in so many ways, that it's so hard
Speaker 3: and everyone's like it's life changing, you've got to try it,
Speaker 3: and I just it's been hard.
Speaker 4: So I have a couple of things I want to
Speaker 4: show you guys.
Speaker 5: This is called the Tory and Jenny Multiverse.
Speaker 3: Oh my goodness, jenns a.
Speaker 4: Couple of different looks.
Speaker 5: I just kind of went wild and put you guys
Speaker 5: in a bunch of different lights and a bunch of
Speaker 5: different environments. I wanted to say this, A lot of
Speaker 5: the decisions in attire and clothing I kind of just
Speaker 5: left up to the AI.
Speaker 4: So don't pick it apart, uh too much, you know
Speaker 4: what I mean?
Speaker 2: No problem, We're so impressed.
Speaker 3: We have already blown away yet no pig in here.
Speaker 2: This is both bizarre. Mike what.
Speaker 4: That?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Thank you? Oh my god, that just made our look
Speaker 3: at us both smiles that it's fun, Like it's just fun.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's super cool to kind of see.
Speaker 2: Yourself things that you would never see like.
Speaker 5: Totally totally, that's the whole point of it. I think
Speaker 5: that's the kind of that's the gap that it kind
Speaker 5: of feels for people like me. For the longest time,
Speaker 5: creating stuff like that was only kind of accessible for
Speaker 5: people who had an extreme amount of knowledge or had
Speaker 5: an extremely extensive background in that type of stuff. And
Speaker 5: to be honest with you, there's so many more creative
Speaker 5: people who who who are creative up here but don't
Speaker 5: have the hands or the tools to get out what
Speaker 5: they have in their head. And I look at AI
Speaker 5: as kind of like the bridge to kind of allow
Speaker 5: people like myself to kind of get out what's in
Speaker 5: my head without having to, you know, walk a mile backwards,
Speaker 5: you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 3: Like, are you an artist? Like can you paint?
Speaker 4: Yeah? So I've always been a visual artist.
Speaker 5: I can draw, I've practiced every medium from photo manipulation
Speaker 5: to video. I've always went with the most kind of
Speaker 5: like dense visual art form. So I went from photo
Speaker 5: manipulation to video because video just seemed more and then
Speaker 5: AI kind of unlocks this other kind of realm of creativity.
Speaker 5: But it also kind of rides the video train, so
Speaker 5: it's even more than that to me, so and also
Speaker 5: having the ability to be able to kind of create
Speaker 5: these worlds from start to finish without leaving my Sometimes
Speaker 5: I'm laying in my bed while I do it, and
Speaker 5: you don't have to go out and shoot anything. It's
Speaker 5: it's really I don't know, it's really cool. This is
Speaker 5: really fun.
Speaker 1: It's a whole different art form. But what about the
Speaker 1: lost art a form of actually getting out of your
Speaker 1: bed and going and filming something.
Speaker 5: I will say from my experience, I can definitely tell
Speaker 5: you that I pretty much took my own job as
Speaker 5: a videographer. You know how they say, like AI creators
Speaker 5: are going to take the jobs of videographers. I think
Speaker 5: that if you look at it as a tool like
Speaker 5: the way I do, you could kind of use it
Speaker 5: to kind of help yourself as a videographer and grow
Speaker 5: your brand in business. Like I don't think I ever
Speaker 5: had any opportunities like the opportunities I'm getting today. Even
Speaker 5: being able to talk to people like you guys and
Speaker 5: get on shows like this wouldn't really I've been doing
Speaker 5: content creation for ten years and I haven't really been
Speaker 5: able to make it as much of an impact as
Speaker 5: I was without these tools, So I'm very grateful for them,
Speaker 5: and I feel blessed that I that I happen to
Speaker 5: be able to create in a time that they're available,
Speaker 5: you know, or as available as they are.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess with anything.
Speaker 1: I was recently having a conversation with someone and talking
Speaker 1: about AI and how you know it can be a
Speaker 1: scary thing, and he pointed out that, you know, a
Speaker 1: surgeon holding a knife a knife can be a scary thing,
Speaker 1: but when a surgeon is holding it to save your life,
Speaker 1: it's a good thing. Agree, And like, you know, someone
Speaker 1: bad is using it to hurt someone, then it's a
Speaker 1: bad thing. So it's very similar with AI. I guess,
Speaker 1: like it's it can be good, can be bad. Hopefully
Speaker 1: people will use it for good, but I don't know
Speaker 1: if I have that much faith.
Speaker 4: I try to. I try to.
Speaker 5: I know, I know that that's a pretty hot topic
Speaker 5: when it comes to AI, and I'm very very aware
Speaker 5: of how far you can push it in terms of
Speaker 5: kind of like deceiving people or manipulating people's thoughts and
Speaker 5: stuff like that. And I think it's really important to
Speaker 5: find a pocket where you can make art but still
Speaker 5: kind of hold a level of respect and kind of
Speaker 5: have like a sense of honor when you're creating it.
Speaker 5: I try to think a lot about like what would
Speaker 5: the family members of the people who I created this
Speaker 5: art about, or what would their fans, or what would
Speaker 5: the people who think first when I create the art,
Speaker 5: not like what would be an awesome joke, Because even
Speaker 5: if you guys don't ever see it, I still think
Speaker 5: that it's important to kind of kind of like show
Speaker 5: that level of respect, just to kind of put a
Speaker 5: good name out for AI. And I feel like if
Speaker 5: more creators like myself are passionate about making art like that,
Speaker 5: maybe we can like kind of lean Hollywood's perspective a
Speaker 5: little bit more and kind of see maybe we can
Speaker 5: work together in a way.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: I agree. I've I've heard so many people speak the
Speaker 3: way you're speaking about it, where it is about bridging
Speaker 3: a gap and being respectful to the original form of
Speaker 3: art and content creating and just kind of I mean,
Speaker 3: we have to evolve, things have to go a certain way.
Speaker 3: It just can't all be manipulated one way or another.
Speaker 3: So and I know there's so many people that speak
Speaker 3: towards your movement of incorporating it and using it the
Speaker 3: right way.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean a lot of people nowadays. I mean honestly,
Speaker 5: a lot of people are copying my videos and it's
Speaker 5: awesome to see a lot of other people kind of
Speaker 5: taking those kind of ideas and pushing it more in
Speaker 5: that direction. It definitely helps in that area of trying
Speaker 5: to make a more lighter kind of environment for people
Speaker 5: to come and create. And it's not it's not just
Speaker 5: this scary world where we have these uh like where
Speaker 5: our fingers on the nuke button and we can just
Speaker 5: kind of blow up Hollywood at any moment.
Speaker 4: It's really not like that.
Speaker 3: It's not like War Games.
Speaker 4: No, not really, It's really just kidding.
Speaker 3: Do you guys remember that movie Matthew Broderick.
Speaker 4: Yes, I should do a War Games animation.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: What like, we both commend you for using AI in
Speaker 1: this fun, creative, artistic way. It's so entertaining, it's so refreshing.
Speaker 1: I think my mom is going to love to see it.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna show it tour sure.
Speaker 5: If you guys have any requests, If your mom likes
Speaker 5: any shows, let me know. I love I have such
Speaker 5: a huge running list.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, I'm sure everyone and their mother are
Speaker 3: now saying like, you have to do this for me?
Speaker 4: And right, oh my god, yeah, that's the only text message.
Speaker 3: You're screwed. Wait are you on cameo?
Speaker 4: No, that's a good idea. I should Maybe I should
Speaker 4: make one of those.
Speaker 3: Okay, give me the referral.
Speaker 1: Thanks well, good luck on your adorable coffee table book. Yes,
Speaker 1: coming out junk Box Babies. Right, where can people find it?
Speaker 5: You can find it on Amazon, so it's sold right
Speaker 5: on Amazon. Also my website, there's a ton of links
Speaker 5: on there. You guys can definitely find it on there,
Speaker 5: and in my Instagram. I have a bunch of links
Speaker 5: in my bio for it. It's pretty much everywhere.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: Well, we're going to be looking for you.
Speaker 4: I really appreciate you guys having me.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, thank you, and thanks for including us.
Speaker 3: There's so many shows and movies and you could have
Speaker 3: done so you do do and we're grateful to be
Speaker 3: a part of it. And our kids, well my kids
Speaker 3: right like.
Speaker 5: You guys will definitely be featured on my page again
Speaker 5: in the future. So I appreciate the time.
Speaker 2: Thank you, guys, Thank you, Mike be Well