Collective creativity in hybrid societies

2026-09-02

AI Summary

研究探讨了生成式AI对文化创作的影响，提出应从新颖性和多样性两个角度理解创造力，并强调混合集体（人与算法互动）在提高创意质量的同时保持多样性的关键在于其组成结构。

Abstract

Generative AI is changing how cultural artifacts are created and circulated, and with it our understanding of creativity itself. Researchers disagree about whether these tools enrich or impoverish culture, and we argue that much of that disagreement comes from conflating two distinct components of creativity: novelty, a property of single artifacts, and diversity, a property of populations. We argue further that creativity in the context of generative AI is best understood as a property of hybrid collectives, or populations of interacting people and algorithms, rather than of individuals. AI-assisted ideation reliably raises the novelty of individual output while narrowing diversity in the aggregate, but this is not an inevitable consequence of putting machines in the loop. Because humans and models search in complementary ways, mixed groups can outperform and out-diversify groups of either kind alone, and machine-discovered solutions can enter human culture and persist there. What decides the outcome is composition: which agents are present, in what proportion, and how they are connected. The question is no longer whether AI helps or harms creativity, but which mixtures let individual gains accumulate without eroding collective diversity.

Problem

• generative AI
• creativity
• novelty
• diversity
• hybrid collectives

Innovation

• hybrid collectives
• creativity
• generative AI
• novelty and diversity