By Yang Hu

What is individual and collective creativity?

Individual creativity comes from：

personal experience and imagination

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.

share

TOGETHER

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.

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