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.
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
Pinned version v1.0 (entry LD09-SL-C10--v1.0) — this page never floats to newer evidence.
This pinned version is also the current version.
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".