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Generative AI enhances individual creativity but reduces the collective diversity of novel content

Anil R. Doshi and Oliver P. Hauser

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Type
Peer-reviewed randomized writing experiment
Publication
Science Advances
Version used
Published article; GPT-4 suggestions
Source date
12 July 2024
Recorded in Atlas
23 October 2026
License
CC BY 4.0. Atlas paraphrase; no reproduced figure.
DOI
10.1126/sciadv.adn5290

2024 publication; 293 UK writers and 600 evaluators. Published original read through a lawful public PDF mirror and metadata checked against UCL. No separate validity period has been established for the finding.

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Better ideas, less variety?

Results: creativity ratings and story similarity; Materials and Methods

Randomized access, optional use. Anchoring supported by proximity to suggestions; no universal causal mechanism inferred.

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Supports this claim:Individual ratings and collective variation can move in opposite directions