AI Unplugged – Issue No. 8

UGC, Hedra, and Baby Mike + Jerry Garcia in the studio!

Author

Mike Murphy
May 30, 2025

🧠 AI Term of The Week: UGC

UGC stands for User-Generated Content — and it’s the lifeblood of modern online platforms.

Content created by users through AI tools and platforms, including text, images, videos, or other media. In the context of AI, this often refers to prompts, AI-generated artwork, or other creative outputs that users produce using AI tools like DALL-E, Midjourney, or ChatGPT. This term highlights the shift from passive consumption to active creation using AI technologies.

AI tools now help creators generate visuals, voices, and full-on characters in minutes — meaning the next viral clip might be made by you… or your AI alter ego.

💬 Quote of the Week:

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“Creativity is intelligence having fun.”

— Albert Einstein”

🧰 AI Tool of The Week: Open Hedra

Hedra
The next gen multimodal content creation platform.

Hedra is an AI animation tool that brings still images to life — and it’s pretty darn cool for video enthusiasts like myself.

Upload a photo. Add a voiceover. Paste in a prompt.
Hedra handles the facial movement, lip sync, and animation.

Great for:

  • Talking head animations

  • Podcast clips

  • Digital puppets

  • AI characters with a story to tell

I used Hedrathis week to animate “Baby Mike” — and the results were pretty weird but awesome. I was quite impressed by Hedra’s animation and voice syncing.

🛠 What I Made: The Baby Mike Viral Podcast Animation

Have you seen the hilarious Theo Von + Joe Rogan baby podcast clips that have gone absolutely viral over the past couple of weeks? Well, I took a shot at making one for myself, Baby Mike, and was blown away how easy it was (thanks to the powerful AI Tools that just keep getting more and more mind-boggling).

Using a mix of tools — Sora (for the image), Adobe Podcast (for voice recording), ElevenLabs (for cloning Jerry Garcia’s voice), and Hedra (for animation) — I created a short video clip of “Baby Mike” hosting a podcast with AI Baby Jerry as the guest.

Tools used:

Here’s what you’ll learn:
✅ How to write an AI prompt using ChatGPT
✅ How to use Sora to generate realistic baby images
✅ How to clone voices and generate speech with ElevenLabs
✅ How to animate still images using Hedra

🎬 Watch the Baby Mike clip here 👇

How to Create a Baby Podcast Animation Using Hedra, Sora & Eleven Labs

💬 Thank You!

– Mike Murphy
Learning AI.
Building digital products.
Make a living as a content creator.