AI is changing everything.
Repeat this 1,000 times and write it 100 times to make sure it is understood.
Whatever we are dealing with today, will likely be vastly different in a decade. Actually, with the pace of things, we are looking at a radically different future by the end of this decade.
One of the areas I often discussion is entertainment. In that realm, we are going to see personalization as the primary standard going forward.
This is not the only arena we see it happening.
In this article we will discuss the idea of personalized jewelry and how that market will change completely.
Any guesses what is driving it?
Personalization: Create Your Own Jewelry
Arcade is a new AI driven product creation site. This takes the ideas of individuals and turns them into physical world items.
It is a concept that was around in the past yet is moving to another level due to AI.
This actually puts the design capabilities in the hands of the users.
The generative AI platform, which launched its beta in September, allows customers — referred to as “Dreamers” — to input their ideas into a generator that then produces a variety of jewelry design options. They can also upload images.
Once a “Dream” is selected, it’s assigned to one of Arcade’s artisans, who brings the digital concepts to life as tangible pieces of jewelry, including bracelets, charms, earrings, necklaces, rings, and more. There are a number of materials to choose from, including gold, brass, silver, and a variety of gemstones, including diamonds, garnet, ruby, and more.
The author of the linked article went through the process. It was reported the entire process, from start to product delivery was 2 weeks.
Are we looking at the future?
At this point, and the software is in beta, there were some issues. According to the article, it didn't do well with multi-item necklaces. Adding more than one charm was problematic.
This is to be expected for something that is news. However, this is also showing us where things are going.
AI = Personalization
Here we see an example of what is possible.
Some opined that we will never see movies generated by AI on an individual basis. I disagree. Leaving that aside, here we see the ability for one to design jewelry, using a prompt (or uploading an image) and receiving the item a couple weeks later.
Why would anyone shop off "the rack" again?
Naturally, the wealthy always had access to unique items. Because of the cost of design and production, we saw the affordable items being mass produced. This means you would enter a store and dozens of the same item were available.
That is not the future. We can see from this single example how jewelry is already changing. While this is not widespread at the moment, it might be the norm by 2030.
The future is going to be driven by AI and that means personalization. In this article, I used images from the article and Arcade's Website. However, these days, most of my articles have images produced by an AI image generator.
That image never existed before and will probably never be duplicated again. It was for single use, embedded into the particular article.
The cost of production was zero, hence it is affordable to make one for each article.
Obviously, physical items are a bit different due to the cost. However, if the software improves to the point where anyone can design jewelry using some prompting, what does this mean for the industry?
As always, things are changing rapidly.