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The Download: introducing the Creativity issue

Rhiannon Williams

created: April 23, 2025, 12:10 p.m. | updated: April 29, 2025, 9:31 a.m.

The university computer lab may seem like an unlikely center for creativity. We tend to think of creativity as happening more in the artist’s studio or writers’ workshop. This latest issue of our magazine, which was entirely produced by human beings using computers, explores creativity and the tension between the artist and technology. New diffusion AI models that make songs from scratch are complicating our definitions of authorship and human creativity. + South Korea’s graphic artists are divided over whether AI will immortalize their work or threaten their creativity.

7 months, 2 weeks ago: MIT Technology Review