The collision between AI and creativity—and the explosive question of who owns what machines make is the topic of this week’s episode of AI Ascent with Dr. Jonathan Luckett. When Jason Allen's Midjourney-generated artwork won the 2022 Colorado State Fair, it detonated a cultural firestorm that's now playing out in courtrooms nationwide. Artists are suing AI companies like Stability AI and Midjourney for allegedly feeding their work into algorithmic meat grinders without permission, while tech companies fire back with fair use defenses. At stake is a fundamental reimagining of copyright itself: if AI systems are sophisticated pattern-matchers rather than creators, can their outputs belong to anyone at all? The emerging answer challenges everything—pure AI art may belong to no one, human-AI collaborations exist in legal gray zones, and the real value of human creativity is evolving from technical skill to something machines can never replicate: vision, emotion, and irreplaceable human perspective.
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