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In the same 2024 experiment, stories written with generative AI ideas were more similar to one another than stories written by humans alone.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“stories are more similar to each other than stories by humans alone”
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
- The authors compared the stories with one another in each condition, not against an outside standard of novelty.
- What it does not show
- Describes the direction of the effect in short stories. It does not measure how far everyday cleanup would narrow a writer's style.