In 2024, an online experiment with 36 ChatGPT users found that use of AI can expand how many creative ideas an individual user has, but at a group level, “users tended to produce less semantically distinct ideas”. That same year, another study reached similar results; this time it was a group of short-story writers who each managed to independently... See more

The model was helpful—but only to an extent. They found that while AI improved the output of less creative writers, it made little difference to the quality of the stories produced by writers who were already creative.

Researchers concluded the experiment with three findings: the access to AI tools equalizes story evaluations, thus removing any advantages or disadvantages to one's innate creativity, no evidence concludes AI's ability to push beyond the creativity levels of humans, and lastly, many participants support the use of AI in creative spaces with the... See more