Peer-reviewed research
Generative AI enhances individual creativity but reduces the collective diversity of novel content
Anil R. Doshi and Oliver P. Hauser, Science Advances, 2024 · DOI 10.1126/sciadv.adn5290
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- What it is
- An online experiment in which writers of short stories either received story ideas from a large language model or wrote without them. The authors compared how evaluators rated the stories and how similar the stories were to one another.
- How much weight it carries
- Peer-reviewed in a major journal, with the design and results reported in full. It tests short creative stories, not dictated or edited speech, so it shows the direction of an effect on writing rather than its size in everyday cleanup.
Facts taken from this source
- 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.
“access to generative AI ideas causes stories to be evaluated as more creative, better written, and more enjoyable, especially among less creative writers” (Abstract)
- In the same 2024 experiment, stories written with generative AI ideas were more similar to one another than stories written by humans alone.
“stories are more similar to each other than stories by humans alone” (Abstract)