Has AI Changed What It Means to Be Creative?

Artificial intelligence can write poems, compose music, create works of art, and even help produce podcasts. But if AI can create almost anything, what makes human creativity special? In this episode, we explore one of today's biggest questions with philosopher Lindsay Brainard, illustrator Jon Cockley, musician Kate Brunotts, and pioneering AI artist Claire Silver. Together, they wrestle with whether AI is replacing creativity, expanding it, or simply changing what it means to create. GUESTS Kate Brunotts, freelance music producer (https://www.breakingsound.com/kate-brunotts) John Cockley, co-founder of the illustration agency, Handsome Frank (https://www.handsomefrank.com/) Lindsay Brainard, professor of philosophy at the University of Alabama, Birmingham (https://www.lindsaybrainard.com/home) Claire Silver, AI collaborative artist (https://www.clairesilver.com/selected-work) CHAPTERS (0:00) Introduction (1:17) Kids Love DALL-E (2:51) AI Everywhere Now (4:14) Musicians and AI (7:16) Ownership and Credit (9:40) Illustrators Push Back (17:28) Cheese Sonnet Test (25:19) Protecting Creativity and Connection (28:05) Offloading Drudgery to AI (29:38) AI as Creative Enabler (30:19) Claire Silver AI Collaborator (34:08) Promptcraft and Taste (39:14) Authorship Influence and Rights (43:19) Ghost in the Machine Finale