Claim LD09-SL-C18 (v1.0)
In two preregistered experiments, language-model assistance gave short-term boosts during assisted tasks only in some measures (in the divergent-thinking task, originality during exposure was similar across conditions), did not raise originality or fluency in later unassisted tasks, and participants who had received strategy coaching from the model produced more similar ideas afterwards.
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?Help from a model did not raise later unassisted originality, and strategy coaching left ideas more similar afterwards.
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 lasting longer than one session
- Source (field 6, as printed)
- Kumar, Vincentius, Jordan & Anderson, “Human Creativity in the Age of LLMs: Randomized Experiments on Divergent and Convergent Thinking,” CHI 2025, arXiv:2410.03703
- Source type (field 7)
- PEER_REVIEWED_CONFERENCE_PAPER (as printed: “Peer-reviewed conference paper”)
- Institutional position
- Independent academic (University of Toronto)
- 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-C18.
Pinned Sources (field 6, version-specific)
- “Kumar, Vincentius, Jordan & Anderson, “Human Creativity in the Age of LLMs: Randomized Experiments on Divergent and Convergent Thinking,” CHI 2025, arXiv:2410.03703” → SRC-SL-KUMAR-ET-AL-CHI-2025--v1.0 — Kumar, Vincentius, Jordan & Anderson, “Human Creativity in the Age of LLMs: Randomized Experiments on Divergent and Convergent Thinking,” CHI 2025, arXiv:2410.03703; 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-C18 | — |
| 2 | PUBLIC-FACING CLAIM | In two preregistered experiments, language-model assistance gave short-term boosts during assisted tasks only in some measures (in the divergent-thinking task, originality during exposure was similar across conditions), did not raise originality or fluency in later unassisted tasks, and participants who had received strategy coaching from the model produced more similar ideas afterwards. | — |
| 3 | CLAIM TYPE | ESTIMATE | base_types: ESTIMATE |
| 4 | RESEARCH STRAND | B — Creative work, writing and ideas | — |
| 5 | MATURITY | EMERGING | states: EMERGING |
| 6 | SOURCE | Kumar, Vincentius, Jordan & Anderson, “Human Creativity in the Age of LLMs: Randomized Experiments on Divergent and Convergent Thinking,” CHI 2025, arXiv:2410.03703 | source_ids: SRC-SL-KUMAR-ET-AL-CHI-2025 |
| 7 | SOURCE TYPE | Peer-reviewed conference paper | classes: PEER_REVIEWED_CONFERENCE_PAPER |
| 8 | INSTITUTIONAL POSITION | Independent academic (University of Toronto) | — |
| 9 | SCOPE | Divergent (alternative uses) and convergent (remote associates) thinking tasks | — |
| 10 | DESIGN | Two preregistered randomized experiments with an assisted exposure phase and a later unassisted test | — |
| 11 | SAMPLE / DATASET | About 1,100 online participants | — |
| 12 | MODEL / TOOL / VERSION | GPT-4o giving answers or coaching strategies | — |
| 13 | COMPARATOR | Participants without model help | — |
| 14 | MAIN RESULT | No gain in later unassisted originality or fluency, and in some cases lower originality and diversity; group-level diversity similar across conditions during exposure; “persistent homogenization” after strategy coaching | — |
| 15 | INFERENTIAL TARGET | Whether effects of AI help carry over to people’s own later thinking | — |
| 16 | DOES NOT LICENSE | Effects lasting longer than one session | — |
| 17 | VERIFICATION STATE | CONTENT VERIFIED | state: CONTENT_VERIFIED_PRIMARY · verified_by: UNKNOWN |
| 18 | LIMITATIONS | Short delay within one session; one model generation; participants based in the US or UK and fluent in English; read in the arXiv version 2, which carries the CHI 2025 reference; the typeset proceedings were not read | — |
| 19 | CONTRADICTORY / SUPPORTING SOURCES | Not applicable | — |
| 20 | GEOGRAPHY / LANGUAGE | US / UK / English | — |
| 21 | DISTRIBUTIONAL LEDGER | Not recorded | — |
| 22 | R01 / FIELD-MAP LINKS | LD-09, D3 | — |
| 23 | WHAT WOULD CHANGE THIS CLAIM? | Studies following people over weeks or months of use | — |
| 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 0b520e744d4317696e073d3af718933455d1568fbe715fefabde373e22c267a3.
Repository-authored inputs (not Drive exports)
- SocioLens claim — LD09-SL-C18 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 18 — LD09-SL-C18” SHA-256
b9df5add603c5f3b50143d0402e5e37db4810f7bbc54051297ea54e79b02ee11; fixturefixtures/authored/claims/LD09-SL-C18--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-C18 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-C18 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-KUMAR-ET-AL-CHI-2025--v1.0 — basis: field 6 of ENTRY 18 — LD09-SL-C18 cites "Kumar, Vincentius, Jordan & Anderson, “Human Creativity in the Age of LLMs: Randomized Experiments on Divergent and Convergent Thinking,” CHI 2025, arXiv:2410.03703"; the only field-6 segment of this ClaimVersion's repository-authored ledger block.
- SOURCE_PROVENANCE_PIN = SRC-SL-KUMAR-ET-AL-CHI-2025--v1.0 — basis: explicit version-pinned public provenance of this ClaimVersion (Amendment v1.2 §6): the pinned field-6 Source record "Kumar, Vincentius, Jordan & Anderson, “Human Creativity in the Age of LLMs: Randomized Experiments on Divergent and Convergent Thinking,” CHI 2025, arXiv:2410.03703".