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AI prompts can boost writers’ creativity but result in similar stories, study finds
Ideas generated by ChatGPT can help writers who lack inherent flair but may mean there are fewer unique ideas
A study suggests that ideas generated by the AI system ChatGPT can help boost the creativity of writers who lack inherent flair – albeit at the expense of variety. The researchers then randomly assigned participants one of three topics – an adventure in the jungle, on the open seas or on a different planet – and asked them to write an eight-sentence story appropriate for teenagers and young adults. The results, published in the journal Science Advances, reveal access to AI boosted these scores, with greater access associated with a larger effect: people with the option of five AI-generated ideas had an 8.1% increase, on average, in novelty ratings for their stories compared with people lacking the option of such help, while usefulness ratings rose by 9% on average.
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