In an experiment, AI-generated ideas made individual short stories rated more creative, especially for less creative writers, but made the stories more similar to one another.
Our reading: One narrow writing task with one model and non-professional UK participants. The individual gain and the collective loss come from the same study.
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Abstract and Results
Access to AI-generated ideas made individual stories rated more novel and useful, especially for less creative writers, but the AI-assisted stories were more similar to one another than stories written by people alone.
Scope note: Randomised online experiment with UK participants writing short stories with one model. Open access; read through Europe PMC (PMC11244532).
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