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Who Owns Creativity? PCDN AI for Impact Newsletter, July 28, 2025
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AI, Creativity & Art: Impact Guide for Changemakers
AI is democratizing creative tools while raising urgent questions about ownership, bias, and access. For impact professionals, these technologies offer unprecedented efficiency gains—but require careful ethical navigation.
The Promise and Perils
The Good: AI tools like Adobe Firefly lower barriers to creative expression, helping marginalized communities preserve cultural heritage and generate resources. Studies show AI can boost artist productivity while creating therapeutic applications for healing.
The Bad: Most AI models train on artist work without consent or compensation. Research on Stable Diffusion reveals massive bias—higher-paying job prompts generate 80% lighter-skinned faces. The digital divide in AI access risks deepening existing inequalities.
Five Key Impact Points
Consent & Compensation: Ethical AI requires artist permission and fair pay—Adobe's licensed-only approach shows a path forward
Bias Mitigation: Systematic approaches needed including diverse datasets and inclusive development teams
Equitable Access: Targeted interventions required for underserved communities
Community-Centered Design: Ground-up development with marginalized communities essential
Transparency: Clear disclosure of training data and algorithmic processes non-negotiable

Key Organizations to Follow
AI Now Institute: Policy research on AI societal impacts
Partnership on AI: Multi-stakeholder responsible AI frameworks
AIArtists.org: Global community platform for AI artists
Alan Turing Institute AI & Arts: Academic-cultural hub for ethical AI
AIandYou: Bridging AI literacy gaps for marginalized communities
Personal Impact: How AI Tools Transform Our Work
As founder of PCDN.global, we use tons of AI tools now in our creative work incuding
Canva: Magic Design
ChatGPT & Perplexity
Marky.ai: AI-powered social media tool that generates 30 days of personalized, on-brand posts in 5 minutes using GPT-4. This one has been amazing.
Followr: A great Social media automation platform
Gamma: One of our favorite tools. An AI presentation maker that creates stunning slides, websites, and social media posts in minutes.
We of course use many others but these are some on our top list.
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