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Are Generative AIs like Midjourney and Sora creative? The “Generative AI Mary’s room” thought experiment.

2024-03-30

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<p>This article examines the debate of whether generative AI systems like Midjourney and Sora can be considered truly creative or are merely remixing existing data. It reviews Finke, Ward, and Smith's creative cognition approach which proposed constraints on human creativity. A new thought experiment, the "Generative AI Mary's Room", is proposed to explore whether a person with comprehensive artistic knowledge but...

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Literature Corpus work: 75e9a590-e06c-5a0c-8425-f67eb57e8b94
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/xj54a

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