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Has AI Surpassed Humans in Creative Idea Generation? A Meta-Analysis

2025-04-16

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<p>Has AI surpassed humans in creative idea generation? This question has gained traction as generative AI (GenAI) becomes widely used for supporting creativity. To evaluate this, we examined the first wave of experimental studies comparing human and GenAI-prompted creative idea generation, by conducting a meta-analysis of 17 studies comprising 115 effect sizes. The results showed a small but non-significant poole...

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Literature Corpus work: aa619325-201f-5bf0-818e-26aceba41ecc
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/9u2ke_v1

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