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🎨 Zekai Challenge · Graphic Design Edition

From zero to AI master.
30 days. 5 minutes a day.

When an image costs seconds to make, the scarce thing is the judgement that chose it — and the part of the work you can actually own. One 5-minute drill a day on briefs, concepts, production and clients, built around the rule that a prompt alone is not authorship.

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The Ownership Line

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of a purely prompt-generated image is yours to own.

Where an AI receives solely a prompt and produces the work, the US Copyright Office says the traditional elements of authorship are determined and executed by the technology, not the human user. Prompts, it says, work like instructions to a commissioned artist.

Source: US Copyright Office, statement of policy on works containing AI-generated material, effective 16 March 2023 (88 FR 16190).

The Duty

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applications a year — and AI material has to be declared in them.

Applicants have a duty to disclose AI-generated content, and anything more than de minimis must be excluded from the claim. Fail to correct the record and the Office says it may take steps to cancel the registration.

Source: US Copyright Office, statement of policy, 16 March 2023.

The Old Question

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the year a court first asked whether a machine can make art.

Photography faced the same argument, and the Supreme Court answered it: an author is the one to whom a work owes its origin. The camera did not end authorship. It relocated it to the person making the decisions.

Source: Burrow-Giles Lithographic Co. v. Sarony, 111 U.S. 53 (1884), as cited by the US Copyright Office.

The plan is simple.

No course platform. No 6-hour videos. A daily drill you run in any AI assistant — built around your real briefs, your real clients and your own files, and around the rule that a prompt alone is not authorship.

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Commit

Sign the challenge below. You'll get Day 1 immediately and one short email per day — the lesson, the reason, and a copy-paste prompt.

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5 minutes a day

Run the day's prompt, see the result, done. Miss a day? Nothing breaks — the challenge is 30 days of reps, not a guilt machine.

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Graduate

Finish all 30 drills, pass a short final check, and claim your Zekai Challenge Certificate — ready for your LinkedIn profile.

Your 30 days. Every one of them, mapped.

Four weeks, four escalations: foundations → the work → production → the business. Day 1 is open right now — try it. The rest unlock one per day after you sign the challenge, because mastery is built on daily reps, not binge-reading.

Day 30 has a trophy.

Finish the challenge and earn the Zekai Certificate of Completion — proof you didn’t just read about AI, you practised it for a month. Type your name. Go on.

Certificate of completion of an educational challenge — not a professional certification and not issued by any industry body. But it looks good on LinkedIn.

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has completed thirty consecutive AI drills and is hereby recognised as an AI-literate design professional.

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Questions before you start

Is this really free?
Yes. Zekai is an independent AI tools directory — the challenge is how we introduce people to the tools we test. Some tool pages contain affiliate links; the challenge itself costs nothing and requires no purchase.
Will this replace my design skills?
No, and that is deliberate. The drills that generate pictures are a small minority of the thirty. Most of this challenge is about the unpaid hours around the work: interrogating a vague brief, translating make it pop into a testable hypothesis, arguing for a typeface, writing a proposal that stops scope creep, and building a case study that shows your reasoning. Those are the hours that decide whether a design business is viable.
What is the ownership rule?
Installed on day 6, and it is the spine of the whole month: a prompt is not authorship. The US Copyright Office states that where an AI receives solely a prompt and produces a complex visual work, the traditional elements of authorship are determined and executed by the technology rather than the human user, and that prompts function more like instructions to a commissioned artist. The same guidance is clear that a human can still author the work through creative selection and arrangement, or by modifying the material enough — and that copyright then protects those human-authored aspects.
Can my client own an AI-generated logo?
That is exactly the question day 6 exists for, and the honest answer is that it depends on what you did. Purely prompt-generated material is not protected by copyright in the United States and must be disclaimed in a registration application. A mark you drew, selected, arranged and refined is a different matter. For an identity that a business will defend for a decade, the difference is commercial, not academic. Nothing here is legal advice, and rules differ by country — get advice for your jurisdiction and your contract.
I think generative image tools are unethical. Why should I do this?
Because the challenge takes that seriously rather than waving it away. Day 12 has you read the actual terms of the tool you use instead of assuming, day 13 teaches you to describe a look by its properties rather than typing a living artist name into a prompt, day 15 draws the line between cosmetic retouching and inventing detail, and day 20 is about disclosing what was generated. You can finish this challenge and decide never to generate a final image — most of the value is elsewhere.
Why can’t I see all 30 drills at once?
Because binge-reading builds nothing. The challenge unlocks one drill per day from the day you sign — the way any skill gets built: daily reps. Day 1 is open right now so you can try it before committing.
Do I need any AI experience?
Zero. Day 1 assumes you have never written a deliberate prompt. By day 14 you will be building the argument for a concept rather than just the concept.
What if I miss a day?
Life happens, and so does an unplanned stop. The challenge is sequential, not strict-daily. Pick up where you left off; the certificate cares that you finish all 30, not that you were perfect.
I work in a different profession. Is there a challenge for that?
This is the Graphic Design Edition. Doctors, lawyers, accountants, teachers, farmers, video editors and many more are already running theirs, with more coming. Sign up and we’ll tell you when yours goes live.