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Human diversity fuels collective creativity that large language models cannot simulate or sustain

Mengchen Dong and Hiromu Yakura

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Preregistered metaphor experiment; unreviewed preprint
Publication
arXiv · Max Planck Institute for Human Development authors
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arXiv:2607.26899v1; gpt-4o-2024-08-06
Source date
29 July 2026
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23 October 2026
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Submitted 29 July 2026; participant task 11–15 March 2026. The preprint explicitly states that it has not undergone peer review. No separate validity period has been established for the finding.

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Better ideas, less variety?

Methods; Figure 2; Supplementary Table S1

Metaphor-only refinement b=0.007, p=.516; metaphor-plus-explanation b=0.046, 95% CI [.022,.069], p<.001. Distinct outcomes, not equivalence.

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Supports this claim:Retaining an idea can coexist with more similar expression Preserve different problem definitions before selecting solutions