Claim LD09-SL-C16 (v1.0)
In a large dynamic experiment where each participant saw example ideas from ChatGPT or from earlier participants before brainstorming, high exposure to AI ideas did not make individual ideas more creative but increased the amount and rate of change of collective idea diversity: in the authors’ words, “AI made ideas different, not better”.
Research opportunities this claim motivates
What this claim leaves open for research. Each is a hypothesis about a gap, not a finding.
- Does pooling different models keep restoring diversity as models converge?AI ideas used as passive examples increased collective diversity.
Provenance and status
- Claim type
- ESTIMATE (as printed: “ESTIMATE”)
- Publication status
- ELIGIBLE (QUALIFIED) (as printed: “ELIGIBLE WITH QUALIFIER”)
- Verification state
- CONTENT_VERIFIED_PRIMARY (as printed: “CONTENT VERIFIED”; verified by: UNKNOWN)
- Does not license
- Effects of co-writing with AI or of AI used as the main source
- Source (field 6, as printed)
- Ashkinaze, Mendelsohn, Li Qiwei, Budak & Gilbert, “How AI Ideas Affect the Creativity, Diversity, and Evolution of Human Ideas: Evidence From a Large, Dynamic Experiment,” ACM Collective Intelligence 2025, arXiv:2401.13481
- Source type (field 7)
- PEER_REVIEWED_CONFERENCE_PAPER (as printed: “Peer-reviewed conference paper”)
- Institutional position
- Independent academic (University of Michigan-led)
- 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-C16.
Pinned Sources (field 6, version-specific)
- “Ashkinaze, Mendelsohn, Li Qiwei, Budak & Gilbert, “How AI Ideas Affect the Creativity, Diversity, and Evolution of Human Ideas: Evidence From a Large, Dynamic Experiment,” ACM Collective Intelligence 2025, arXiv:2401.13481” → SRC-SL-ASHKINAZE-ET-AL-CI-2025--v1.0 — Ashkinaze, Mendelsohn, Li Qiwei, Budak & Gilbert, “How AI Ideas Affect the Creativity, Diversity, and Evolution of Human Ideas: Evidence From a Large, Dynamic Experiment,” ACM Collective Intelligence 2025, arXiv:2401.13481; class PEER_REVIEWED_CONFERENCE_PAPER (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-C16 | — |
| 2 | PUBLIC-FACING CLAIM | In a large dynamic experiment where each participant saw example ideas from ChatGPT or from earlier participants before brainstorming, high exposure to AI ideas did not make individual ideas more creative but increased the amount and rate of change of collective idea diversity: in the authors’ words, “AI made ideas different, not better”. | — |
| 3 | CLAIM TYPE | ESTIMATE | base_types: ESTIMATE |
| 4 | RESEARCH STRAND | B — Creative work, writing and ideas | — |
| 5 | MATURITY | EMERGING | states: EMERGING |
| 6 | SOURCE | Ashkinaze, Mendelsohn, Li Qiwei, Budak & Gilbert, “How AI Ideas Affect the Creativity, Diversity, and Evolution of Human Ideas: Evidence From a Large, Dynamic Experiment,” ACM Collective Intelligence 2025, arXiv:2401.13481 | source_ids: SRC-SL-ASHKINAZE-ET-AL-CI-2025 |
| 7 | SOURCE TYPE | Peer-reviewed conference paper | classes: PEER_REVIEWED_CONFERENCE_PAPER |
| 8 | INSTITUTIONAL POSITION | Independent academic (University of Michigan-led) | — |
| 9 | SCOPE | Brainstorming with passive exposure to example ideas | — |
| 10 | DESIGN | Experiment in which the pool of example ideas evolves across successive participants; exposure and disclosure varied | — |
| 11 | SAMPLE / DATASET | More than 800 participants from more than 40 countries | — |
| 12 | MODEL / TOOL / VERSION | ChatGPT-generated example ideas | — |
| 13 | COMPARATOR | Low or no exposure to AI ideas | — |
| 14 | MAIN RESULT | No effect on individual idea creativity; higher collective idea diversity under high AI exposure; no main effect of disclosing that ideas came from AI | — |
| 15 | INFERENTIAL TARGET | How seeing AI ideas changes a group’s pool of ideas over time | — |
| 16 | DOES NOT LICENSE | Effects of co-writing with AI or of AI used as the main source | — |
| 17 | VERIFICATION STATE | CONTENT VERIFIED | state: CONTENT_VERIFIED_PRIMARY · verified_by: UNKNOWN |
| 18 | LIMITATIONS | Passive exposure, not co-writing; brainstorming only; read in the arXiv version 3 (July 2025), which states acceptance at ACM Collective Intelligence 2025; the proceedings version was not read | — |
| 19 | CONTRADICTORY / SUPPORTING SOURCES | Homogenization when everyone draws from the same model: LD09-SL-C10, LD09-SL-C15 | — |
| 20 | GEOGRAPHY / LANGUAGE | Multi-country | — |
| 21 | DISTRIBUTIONAL LEDGER | Not recorded | — |
| 22 | R01 / FIELD-MAP LINKS | LD-09, D3 | — |
| 23 | WHAT WOULD CHANGE THIS CLAIM? | Studies comparing AI as one input among many with AI as everyone’s main source | — |
| 24 | PUBLICATION STATUS | ELIGIBLE WITH QUALIFIER | state: ELIGIBLE · qualifiers: QUALIFIED |
| 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 0ef6e7237b6abe239e145010a3482b57f44996cfc68b08223722edd93e321e3e.
Repository-authored inputs (not Drive exports)
- SocioLens claim — LD09-SL-C16 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 16 — LD09-SL-C16” SHA-256
ffa632dccc82b10553d38241d9735c584766a2c46df7295bf7c851955a4c6645; fixturefixtures/authored/claims/LD09-SL-C16--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-C16 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-C16 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-ASHKINAZE-ET-AL-CI-2025--v1.0 — basis: field 6 of ENTRY 16 — LD09-SL-C16 cites "Ashkinaze, Mendelsohn, Li Qiwei, Budak & Gilbert, “How AI Ideas Affect the Creativity, Diversity, and Evolution of Human Ideas: Evidence From a Large, Dynamic Experiment,” ACM Collective Intelligence 2025, arXiv:2401.13481"; the only field-6 segment of this ClaimVersion's repository-authored ledger block.
- SOURCE_PROVENANCE_PIN = SRC-SL-ASHKINAZE-ET-AL-CI-2025--v1.0 — basis: explicit version-pinned public provenance of this ClaimVersion (Amendment v1.2 §6): the pinned field-6 Source record "Ashkinaze, Mendelsohn, Li Qiwei, Budak & Gilbert, “How AI Ideas Affect the Creativity, Diversity, and Evolution of Human Ideas: Evidence From a Large, Dynamic Experiment,” ACM Collective Intelligence 2025, arXiv:2401.13481".