AI for Creatives

# Lost in the Algorithm — Meetup & Mini-Workshop

First AI Creative Meetup • Human craft first. AI as an assistant, not a replacement.
When: Sunday, October 19, 2025 • 2:30–4:30 PM PT
Where: PVNET - Promenade PV Mall (550 Deep Valley Dr., Ste #229
Rolling Hills Estates, CA 90274)
Host: Joseph Micallef
SIGN UP LINK: https://lnkd.in/gEsiHmjf
BACKUP SIGN UP LINK (if you have any issues with the meetup link) https://reservemonster.com/

## What it is

A hands-on, AI-forward creative meetup showing how artists, designers, and developers can use AI to accelerate work—without losing voice, authorship, or craft. We’ll blend hand-drawn character work, world-building, and a tiny HTML/Canvas game, using AI for scaffolding, iteration, and polish while keeping human judgment in the lead.

## Objectives

• Use AI as an assistant, not a replacement: We will cover several AI tools that can be used for coding assistance, while covering do's and don'ts on how to use generative AI for content development
• Keep authorship human: timing, staging, style, story beats, and final taste decisions.
• Ship a tiny prototype: turn art into a sprite sheet, drop it into a browser scene, and wire simple choice logic.
• Build a repeatable workflow: plan on paper → prototype → use AI to speed boring parts → review by hand.
• Practice responsible AI: attribution, consent, privacy, bias awareness, disclosure of AI-assisted steps, and simple record-keeping for reproducibility.

## Agenda

• 2:30 — Welcome & intros
• 2:40 — Talk: Lost in the Algorithm (how AI helps, where it shouldn’t)
• 3:05 — Ethics & Safety mini-segment: data consent, bias, transparency, attribution, privacy basics
• 3:15 — Live demo: art → sprite sheet → playable HTML/Canvas scene (AI assists for code/JSON/alt text)
• 3:35 — Mini-workshop: add a narrative choice that shifts a Human ⇄ Algorithm “balance”
• 4:10 — Q&A, share-outs, next steps
• 4:30 — Wrap

## Practical takeaways

• A one-file browser starter you can reuse for classes or portfolios
• A checklist for AI-assisted but human-directed production
• Prompt patterns for safe, bounded AI help (tone-match, summarize, “don’t invent lore”)
• A simple ethics guide you can apply to future projects

## Ethics quick guide (we’ll model this live)

• Attribution: credit references and disclose AI-assisted parts.
• Consent & data: avoid using copyrighted or private material without permission.
• Bias checks: spot obvious stereotype/bias outputs; re-prompt or drop.
• Privacy: strip personal identifiers from inputs; don’t paste secrets.
• Transparency: document what AI generated vs. what you crafted.
• Reproducibility: save export settings, prompts, and versions.

Who should come: Animators, designers, developers, educators, students—anyone curious about using AI usefully and responsibly.
Bring: Sketchbook/pen. (Optional) Laptop with a modern browser.
Cost: Free • All skill levels welcome
RSVP: Reply/DM to save a seat. (Tip: arrive a few minutes early to grab a spot.)