Matt Tancik

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The a16z Show · Building AI for Creators | Luma & Phota Labs · 30 Jun 2026 podcast

And so wherever there's the hole in the technology, you push it.

that doesn't necessarily align with what, say, a customer or an end user would actually be interested in.

And so quite often you see these things diverge.

For example, in image generation, an artist probably doesn't care about generating paragraphs long of really dense text in some esoteric font.

Maybe some do, but most don't.

But as a research question, that's extremely interesting.

So you do have to decide, do you want to keep pushing the research in certain directions?

And when do you take a step back and push the creative side?

Because in many cases, what an artist or creative would want is actually very simplistic.

And the tools already exist out there.

And it's just a matter of piecing together in the right way.

Or even just fixing up lighting of an image.

It's something that also doesn't have a very concrete solution.

So it's hard for, say, a researcher to optimize a metric against.

But when it comes to a creative task, it's extremely useful.

Yeah, I think one of the first things that comes to mind is that you tend to think that like an artist or creative has an end goal in mind.

Like they know exactly in their head what they want.

But in reality, that's not true.

Part of art is that iteration.

Yeah.

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