Claim LD09-SL-C10 (v1.0)
In a preregistered online experiment, writers given one or up to five story ideas from GPT-4 wrote stories rated 5.4% and 8.1% more novel and 3.7% and 9.0% more useful than writers without AI, with the largest gains for less creative writers; but their stories were 5.2% and 5.0% more similar to the AI ideas and more similar to each other.
Research opportunities this claim motivates
What this claim leaves open for research. Each is a hypothesis about a gap, not a finding.
- Does the convergence caused by writing with AI persist or compound over months of use?Stories written with AI ideas were rated better and were more similar to each other, in one session.
- Is the diversity of what reaches the market falling, or only diversity inside experiments?AI-assisted stories were rated better and were more alike in an experiment.
Provenance and status
- Claim type
- ESTIMATE (as printed: “ESTIMATE”)
- Publication status
- ELIGIBLE (STRONG_SCOPE) (as printed: “ELIGIBLE WITH STRONG SCOPE QUALIFIER”)
- Verification state
- CONTENT_VERIFIED_PRIMARY (as printed: “CONTENT VERIFIED”; verified by: UNKNOWN)
- Does not license
- Effects in markets or over time; a statement that stories are “10.7% more similar” (that figure is a share of a score range)
- Source (field 6, as printed)
- Doshi & Hauser, “Generative AI enhances individual creativity but reduces the collective diversity of novel content,” Science Advances 10, eadn5290, 2024
- Source type (field 7)
- PEER_REVIEWED_JOURNAL_ARTICLE (as printed: “Peer-reviewed journal article”)
- Institutional position
- Independent academic (UCL School of Management and University of Exeter)
- Maturity (claim evidence / publication maturity)
- EMERGING (as printed: “EMERGING”)
- Recorded date
- 2026-10-15
- Currentness / correction
- This is the current version. No correction or concern relation is recorded on its Sources.
Version
Current version v1.0, resolved through the explicit current pointer CLAIM--LD09-SL-C10.
Pinned Sources (field 6, version-specific)
- “Doshi & Hauser, “Generative AI enhances individual creativity but reduces the collective diversity of novel content,” Science Advances 10, eadn5290, 2024” → SRC-SL-DOSHI-HAUSER-SCIENCE-ADVANCES-2024--v1.0 — Doshi & Hauser, “Generative AI enhances individual creativity but reduces the collective diversity of novel content,” Science Advances 10, eadn5290, 2024; class PEER_REVIEWED_JOURNAL_ARTICLE (explicit public provenance pin)
All 25 canonical Claim fields (raw values and normalized values)
| # | Canonical field | Canonical value (verbatim) | Normalized (Claim Value Vocabulary v1.0.2) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CLAIM ID | LD09-SL-C10 | — |
| 2 | PUBLIC-FACING CLAIM | In a preregistered online experiment, writers given one or up to five story ideas from GPT-4 wrote stories rated 5.4% and 8.1% more novel and 3.7% and 9.0% more useful than writers without AI, with the largest gains for less creative writers; but their stories were 5.2% and 5.0% more similar to the AI ideas and more similar to each other. | — |
| 3 | CLAIM TYPE | ESTIMATE | base_types: ESTIMATE |
| 4 | RESEARCH STRAND | B — Creative work, writing and ideas | — |
| 5 | MATURITY | EMERGING | states: EMERGING |
| 6 | SOURCE | Doshi & Hauser, “Generative AI enhances individual creativity but reduces the collective diversity of novel content,” Science Advances 10, eadn5290, 2024 | source_ids: SRC-SL-DOSHI-HAUSER-SCIENCE-ADVANCES-2024 |
| 7 | SOURCE TYPE | Peer-reviewed journal article | classes: PEER_REVIEWED_JOURNAL_ARTICLE |
| 8 | INSTITUTIONAL POSITION | Independent academic (UCL School of Management and University of Exeter) | — |
| 9 | SCOPE | Eight-sentence short stories for a teenage and young-adult audience | — |
| 10 | DESIGN | Preregistered randomized experiment with three arms; blind evaluation; similarity from text embeddings | — |
| 11 | SAMPLE / DATASET | 293 writers and 600 evaluators recruited online | — |
| 12 | MODEL / TOOL / VERSION | GPT-4 (2023) generating three-sentence story ideas | — |
| 13 | COMPARATOR | Writers without access to AI ideas | — |
| 14 | MAIN RESULT | Novelty +5.4% (one idea) and +8.1% (five); usefulness +3.7% and +9.0%; less creative (low-DAT) writers novelty +6.3% and +10.7%; similarity to the AI ideas +5.2% and +5.0%; similarity to other stories in the same condition up by an amount the paper puts at 10.7% and 8.9% of the range of human-only scores | — |
| 15 | INFERENTIAL TARGET | The trade-off between individual creative quality and the diversity of what a group produces | — |
| 16 | DOES NOT LICENSE | Effects in markets or over time; a statement that stories are “10.7% more similar” (that figure is a share of a score range) | — |
| 17 | VERIFICATION STATE | CONTENT VERIFIED | state: CONTENT_VERIFIED_PRIMARY · verified_by: UNKNOWN |
| 18 | LIMITATIONS | One short task, one model generation, online sample, English only; effects are small; “collective” means the pool of stories in the experiment | — |
| 19 | CONTRADICTORY / SUPPORTING SOURCES | AI exposure raising collective diversity: LD09-SL-C16 | — |
| 20 | GEOGRAPHY / LANGUAGE | UK / English | — |
| 21 | DISTRIBUTIONAL LEDGER | Gains were largest for less creative writers, so AI narrowed differences between writers while making their work more alike | — |
| 22 | R01 / FIELD-MAP LINKS | LD-09, D3 | — |
| 23 | WHAT WOULD CHANGE THIS CLAIM? | Field or longitudinal evidence on whether homogenization in a pool of work persists or grows | — |
| 24 | PUBLICATION STATUS | ELIGIBLE WITH STRONG SCOPE QUALIFIER | state: ELIGIBLE · qualifiers: STRONG_SCOPE |
| 25 | RECORDED DATE | 2026-10-15 | — |
Field 22 references resolved against Field Map v0.2: LD-09 (LIVING_DEBATE); D3 (DOMAIN)
Cited by Living Debate versions
Research-of-record provenance
Materialized by sociolens-materializer 0.6.0 at 2026-09-28T20:00:00.000Z; normalization contract SocioLens — Claim Value Vocabulary v1.0.2 — Pre-Spike Materialization Contract (v1.0.2). Content seal SHA-256 e5573707dfd0f5a8f8596d4f8daff6cc4c43a156913c40c9608e85df996d25b3.
Repository-authored inputs (not Drive exports)
- SocioLens claim — LD09-SL-C10 v1.0 (v1.0) — written in the SocioLens repository by Project Lead (Claude, AI) on 2026-10-15; no Drive identity exists. Authority: AGENTS.md "Authority" (the Project Lead decides research content within the research-integrity rules) and the Owner's choice in the SocioLens project chat on 15 October 2026 to build the LD-09 debate; a new Claim, first version, written from the project's LD-09 source notes, checked against full texts or official abstracts. Block “ENTRY 10 — LD09-SL-C10” SHA-256
69891da7bfda4819cfe27455af1eb9622012be9f631d428ab7436d3b71653647; fixturefixtures/authored/claims/LD09-SL-C10--v1.0.
Builder decisions (not Drive data)
- VERSION = v1.0 — basis: Claim version taken from the repository-authored claim fixture version (SocioLens claim — LD09-SL-C10 v1.0); the first version of a new Claim of the LD-09 debate
- CURRENT_POINTER = true — basis: repository-authored claim "SocioLens claim — LD09-SL-C10 v1.0" (Project Lead (Claude, AI), 2026-10-15); basis: AGENTS.md "Authority" (the Project Lead decides research content within the research-integrity rules) and the Owner's choice in the SocioLens project chat on 15 October 2026 to build the LD-09 debate; a new Claim, first version, written from the project's LD-09 source notes, checked against full texts or official abstracts
- FIELD_6_SOURCE_REFERENCE = SRC-SL-DOSHI-HAUSER-SCIENCE-ADVANCES-2024--v1.0 — basis: field 6 of ENTRY 10 — LD09-SL-C10 cites "Doshi & Hauser, “Generative AI enhances individual creativity but reduces the collective diversity of novel content,” Science Advances 10, eadn5290, 2024"; the only field-6 segment of this ClaimVersion's repository-authored ledger block.
- SOURCE_PROVENANCE_PIN = SRC-SL-DOSHI-HAUSER-SCIENCE-ADVANCES-2024--v1.0 — basis: explicit version-pinned public provenance of this ClaimVersion (Amendment v1.2 §6): the pinned field-6 Source record "Doshi & Hauser, “Generative AI enhances individual creativity but reduces the collective diversity of novel content,” Science Advances 10, eadn5290, 2024".