AI & Writing: From Novice to Novelist?

The Impact of Generative AI on Human Creativity: A Writer’s Perspective

How AI Is Bridging the Gap in Creative Writing

Tristan Wolff
4 min readJul 14, 2024

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Recently, a couple of studies have explored how writers can efficiently use large language models (LLMs) and whether their performance actually improves. The latest one concludes:

AI doesn’t just boost human creativity — it levels the playing field.

That means Generative AI is narrowing the gap between novices and veterans, potentially democratizing creative expression.

The catch?

… as individual creativity soars, the creative industry risks losing originality in specific domains.

The AI-Powered Creativity Boost

In their latest study, researchers Anil Doshi and Oliver Hauser have shed some light on how generative AI impacts human creativity in writing. The experiment involved 293 participants tasked with writing 8-sentence…

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