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Artificial intelligence redefines creativity for Gen Z, with tools like GenHQ teaching creators to use AI effectively.
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GenHQ founder Rorkeith focuses on empowering creators to strategically incorporate AI into various creative industries.
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The AI Download episode explores the shift towards digital literacy, encouraging users to create with AI tools rather than consume passively.
Artificial intelligence isn’t just changing how people work—it’s changing how they learn to create. In a recent episode of The AI Download, host Shira Lazar explored how Gen Z is embracing AI tools as creative partners rather than competitors.
Her guest, Rorkeith, founder of GenHQ, has built one of the largest AI learning communities online, with more than half a million followers and partnerships with companies like Adobe and Runway. Through GenHQ, he teaches creators to use AI to make art, content, and even income.
“We’re talking about making money while learning how to use AI,” Lazar said at the start of the episode.
Rorkeith shared how his mission goes beyond prompting text or generating images. GenHQ focuses on empowering creators to think strategically about how AI fits into creative industries—from digital design to video editing.
“We want people to move from consuming AI content to actually creating with it,” he said.
Lazar noted that the shift represents a new kind of digital literacy. Where once social platforms taught users to post, like, and share, today’s AI tools demand experimentation, curiosity, and a sense of ownership.
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Started playing around with #Sora. Kind of addicting! pic.twitter.com/5KOJOHpTtV
— Shira Lazar (she/her) 📍Los Angeles, CA (@shiralazar) October 3, 2025
The episode, sponsored by HiveLighter.ai, also highlighted how technology is transforming not just creativity but also how people process information. HiveLighter’s AI-driven platform summarizes news and articles, allowing users to “get smarter every day,” as Lazar described it.
Listeners were encouraged to explore the full collection of AI tools and topics discussed in the show through the AI Download Collection linked in the episode notes.
