What is individual and collective creativity?

personal experience and imagination

Individual creativity comes from：

By Yang Hu

Collective creativity happens when different people -

or even machines — connect their ideas.

Authorship when many hands?

Authorship becomes more complex

When AI tools or multiple people contribute, ownership turns shared. The result no longer belongs to one creator but to a process. It challenges the idea that art must have one clear author.

What if AI systems worked like collective art projects???

TOGETHER

share

build

If AI systems worked like collective art projects, people could share and collaborate freely. Everyone would have access to large shared resources to develop their own ideas. It would make creativity more open, fair, and diverse.