Spicy Academy: free AI content creation courses
Three tracks of free lessons: AI OFM and AI influencers, making money with AI, and masterclasses for every tool in the studio. Each lesson links to the tool that does the job, with the model already selected.
- 26 lessons
- 3 tracks
- Free to read
- No email gate
AI OFM & AI influencers18+
The free AI OFM course and hands-on playbook: one consistent persona, short-form video that travels, and monetization within each platform's rules.
- 01ArticleFree
What AI OFM is (and isn't)
OFM meaning, pure vs hybrid AI OFM, where AI personas are allowed and a compliant way to start.
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- 02Hands-on workflowFree account
Your persona's first frame
One face reference, a face-replaced phone photo and an enhance pass: the base of every post.
- 03ArticleFree
One face in every post
Keep your AI character consistent across photos and videos, without ComfyUI.
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- 04Hands-on workflowFree account
Motion control remakes
Put your persona into a trending clip and keep its exact moves and timing.
- 05Hands-on workflowFree account
Lip-sync clips
Take a clip with a strong voice track, keep the sound and make your character the one talking.
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- 06ArticleFree
Six viral Reels formats
Street interviews, POVs, podcast clips and motion remakes, with AI labels done right.
- 07Hands-on workflowSpicy Pro
Sketch videos with dialogue
Street interviews and comedy sketches with voices, generated in one Seedance shot.
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- 08ArticleFreeNew
How AI influencers make money
Brand deals, affiliate links, UGC licensing and subscriptions, plus the disclosure rules that cover virtual influencers.
- 09ArticleFree
AI OFM money: honest numbers
Platform fees, agency cuts, content costs and why viral income screenshots mislead.
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- 10ArticleFree account18+
The Spicy (18+) track
Opt-in 18+ models for fictional adult personas, rules first. Full step-by-step workflows are coming soon.
18+ track. Fictional, clearly adult personas only: never a real person's likeness without documented consent. Label AI content where platforms require it, and never present a persona to fans as a real human.
Read first: Is AI OFM legal? Platform rules · AI OFM success stories, checked · The free AI OFM course on one page
Make money with AI
Client work and side projects the studio can actually do: UGC-style ads, product photos and product videos, faceless channels, AI art and freelance services.
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How to make money with AI (honest 2026 guide)
The realistic ways to earn with AI images and video, what each one takes, what it costs and the rules that apply.
- 02ArticleFreeNew
AI UGC ads for brands
UGC-style video ads with an AI presenter and the real product, without fake testimonials, and labelled the way platforms ask.
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- 03ArticleFreeNew
AI product photos for Amazon, Shopify & Etsy
From one product photo to a white-background main image and lifestyle shots that follow each marketplace's rules.
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Product video ads from one photo
Animate a product still into a short ad with Kling 3.0 or Seedance 2.5: motion prompts, formats and hooks.
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Faceless YouTube & TikTok channels
Plan a faceless channel that can pass YouTube's inauthentic-content review: original scripts, AI visuals and disclosure.
- 06ArticleFreeNew
Sell AI art: print on demand & stock
Where AI art is allowed, how to upscale for print and what you can (and can't) claim about copyright.
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Sell AI photo & video services
Package product shoots, UGC ads and edits as freelance services for small brands: scope, pricing and disclosure.
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Earnings disclaimer: these lessons teach skills; they are not a business opportunity. We don't promise or imply any income, and nothing here is financial or legal advice. What you earn, if anything, depends on your skills, effort, market and costs. Income claims, endorsements and ads are regulated: follow the FTC (US), the Competition Bureau (Canada) and the ACCC (Australia), and disclose paid partnerships and AI-generated people.
Tool masterclasses
Get more out of every tool: Seedance 2.5 and Kling 3.0 video, motion control, consistent characters, lip sync, 4K upscaling and cleanup.
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Seedance 2.5: video with dialogue and sound
Features, settings and pricing of ByteDance's newest video model, including audio and reference inputs.
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- 02ArticleFree
Seedance prompts that look real
A free prompt template for realistic, phone-style video with dialogue, camera rules and fixes.
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- 03ArticleFree
Kling 3.0: character-led shots
Start and end frames, motion and sound for cinematic clips with people in them.
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- 04ArticleFree
Motion control: copy a move onto your character
Transfer the motion of a reference video onto a still character with Kling 3.0 Motion Control.
- 05Hands-on workflowFree account
The realistic first frame
A face reference, a GPT Image 2.5 prompt and a Nano Banana 2.1 enhance: the still every video starts from.
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Consistent characters with Nano Banana 2.1
Prompts and reference-image habits that keep one face across every image and edit.
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- 07ArticleFree
Lip sync: make a photo talk
The right photo, a clean MP3 and body-language prompts for a talking clip.
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- 08ArticleFree
Upscale images and video to 4K
When to upscale, which upscaler to use and how to avoid the plastic look.
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- 09ArticleFree
Cleanup: backgrounds and objects
Remove backgrounds from images and video, and erase objects, for clean product and social assets.
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Tip: every lesson opens its tool with the model already selected.
How Spicy Academy works
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Pick a track
Start from your goal: a persona, client work or one specific tool.
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Read the lesson
Articles are free to read. Hands-on workflows need a free account; two advanced ones are part of Spicy Pro.
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Open the tool
Each lesson links to the tool that does the job. New accounts get 25 free credits to try it.
Frequently asked questions
Is Spicy Academy really free?
Yes. Every article is free to read, with no email gate. The hands-on workflows in the How-to-use playbook need a free Spicy Studio account, and two advanced workflows (complex motion and sketch videos) are part of Spicy Pro. Generating images or video uses credits; new accounts get 25 free credits.
Do I need experience with AI tools?
No. Start with the realistic first frame lesson, then pick the track that matches your goal. Each lesson links to the tool with the model already selected, so you can follow along.
Will these courses make me money?
We can't promise that, and we don't. The make-money lessons explain how each approach works, what it costs and which rules apply; results depend on your skills, effort, market and costs. Be wary of any course that guarantees income.
Which tools do the lessons use?
Image Lab (GPT Image 2.5, Nano Banana 2.1), Video Lab (Seedance 2.5, Kling 3.0, Veo 3.1), Character Swap (Kling 3.0 Motion Control), Lip Sync, Multi-Shot, product templates, the background remover and eraser, and the 4K image and video upscalers.
Is there 18+ content in the Academy?
Only in the AI OFM track, where 18+ lessons are clearly marked. They cover fictional, clearly adult personas; the opt-in Spicy models are for adults only and their generations are private by default. Using a real person's likeness without their consent is never allowed.
Start with 25 free credits
Create a free account, pick a lesson and open the tool. No card needed.