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In the same 2024 experiment, access to generative AI ideas made stories rated as more creative, better written and more enjoyable, especially among less creative writers.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“access to generative AI ideas causes stories to be evaluated as more creative, better written, and more enjoyable, especially among less creative writers”
Generative AI enhances individual creativity but reduces the collective diversity of novel content, Anil R. Doshi and Oliver P. Hauser, Science Advances, 2024, Abstract.
Open the original (DOI 10.1126/sciadv.adn5290)- What it measures
- Writers in an online experiment either received story ideas from a large language model or wrote without them. Evaluators then rated the resulting stories.
- What it does not show
- Short creative stories, not dictated or edited speech. The gains were largest for writers who were less creative to begin with.