Nick Knight Is Building His Own AI
The Business of Fashion Podcast

Nick Knight Is Building His Own AI

B2Upper-intermediateAugust 21, 202639 min

I've been interviewing Nick Knight for more than 15 years. This is our fourth in-depth, sit-down interview. At this stage, it's become something closer to a running conversation about how technology is reshaping fashion. This time around, I wanted to know where Nick is focusing his energy now. It turns out, he is building his own AI datasets from scratch — photographing a model over and over so the machine sees the world only through his references, and never scrapes the internet for somebody else's. He takes his own still image and asks the AI to make it mo...

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