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Recent advancements in generative artificial intelligence (generative AI) technologies have transformed the computer science discipline of natural language processing. However, generative AI retains the anthropomorphic model of simulating…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Dejan Grba , Vladimir Todorović

Copyright law focuses on whether a new work is "substantially similar" to an existing one, but generative AI can closely imitate style without copying content, a capability now central to ongoing litigation. We argue that existing…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-02-13 Annie Liang , Jay Lu

The recent wave of generative AI has sparked unprecedented global attention, with both excitement and concern over potentially superhuman levels of artificial intelligence: models now take only seconds to produce outputs that would…

The concept of art has transposed meaning and medium across time, with its context being a deciding factor for its evolution. However, human beings' innermost functionality remains the same, and art, to this day, serves as an expression of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Alayt Issak

Creativity assessment in science and engineering is increasingly based on both human and AI judgment, but the cognitive processes and biases behind these evaluations remain poorly understood. We conducted two experiments examining how…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Antonio Laverghetta , Tuhin Chakrabarty , Tom Hope , Jimmy Pronchick , Krupa Bhawsar , Roger E. Beaty

We here analyse the question of developing artificial consciousness from an evolutionary perspective, taking the evolution of the human brain and its relation with consciousness as a reference model. This kind of analysis reveals several…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-07-30 Michele Farisco , Kathinka Evers , Jean-Pierre Changeux

Generative AI is increasingly transforming creativity into a hybrid human-artificial process, but its impact on the quality and diversity of creative output remains unclear. We study collective creativity using a controlled word-guessing…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Chenyi Li , Raja Marjieh , Haoyu Hu , Mark Steyvers , Katherine M. Collins , Ilia Sucholutsky , Nori Jacoby

Many species engage in acts that could be called creative. However, human creativity is unique in that it has transformed our planet. Given that the anatomy of the human brain is not so different from that of the great apes, what enables us…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-07-11 Liane Gabora , Scott Barry Kaufman

Creativity has long been considered one of the most difficult aspect of human intelligence for AI to mimic. However, the rise of Large Language Models (LLMs), like ChatGPT, has raised questions about whether AI can match or even surpass…

Generative AI is quickly becoming an integral part of people's everyday workflows. Early evidence has shown that while generative AI can increase individual-level productivity, it does so at the cost of collective diversity, potentially…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Nathanael Jo , Manish Raghavan

Generative AI (GenAI) is transforming the creativity process. However, as presented in this paper, GenAI encounters "narrow creativity" barriers. We observe that both humans and GenAI focus on limited subsets of the design space. We…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Runlin Duan , Shao-Kang Hsia , Yuzhao Chen , Yichen Hu , Ming Yin , Karthik Ramani

The rapid advancement of generative AI is poised to disrupt the creative industry. Amidst the immense excitement for this new technology, its future development and applications in the creative industry hinge crucially upon two copyright…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-12-09 S. Alex Yang , Angela Huyue Zhang

Generative AI systems are predominantly designed, evaluated, and marketed as intelligent systems which will benefit society by augmenting or automating human cognitive labor, promising to increase personal, corporate, and macroeconomic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Cody Kommers , Ari Holtzman

Since the emergence of generative AI, creative workers have spoken up about the career-based harms they have experienced arising from this new technology. A common theme in these accounts of harm is that generative AI models are trained on…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Lin Kyi , Amruta Mahuli , M. Six Silberman , Reuben Binns , Jun Zhao , Asia J. Biega

While AI models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in constrained domains like game strategy, their potential for genuine creativity in open-ended domains like art remains debated. We explore this question by examining how AI can…

This paper reviews the current state of the art in Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies and applications in the context of the creative industries. A brief background of AI, and specifically Machine Learning (ML) algorithms, is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Nantheera Anantrasirichai , David Bull

Generative AI tools are used to create art-like outputs and sometimes aid in the creative process. These tools have potential benefits for artists, but they also have the potential to harm the art workforce and infringe upon artistic and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Juniper Lovato , Julia Zimmerman , Isabelle Smith , Peter Dodds , Jennifer Karson

Generative Artificial Intelligence (Generative AI) is a collection of AI technologies that can generate new information such as texts and images. With its strong capabilities, Generative AI has been actively studied in creative design…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Liuging Chen , Yaxuan Song , Jia Guo , Lingyun Sun , Peter Childs , Yuan Yin

Improvisation-the art of spontaneous creation that unfolds moment-to-moment without a scripted outcome-requires practitioners to continuously sense, adapt, and create anew. It is a fundamental mode of human creativity spanning music, dance,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Botao 'Amber' Hu

Generative AI models are capable of performing a wide variety of tasks that have traditionally required creativity and human understanding. During training, they learn patterns from existing data and can subsequently generate new content…