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"The Cat Sat on the xxx?" Why generative AI has limited creativity

2025-10-28

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<p>Since the introduction of Generative AI several years ago, there has been much debate regarding the capacity of this technology for creativity. This paper applies the standard definition of creativity to the output of Large Language Models (LLMs) and shows not only that this can be calculated ex ante, but that LLM output creativity has a fundamental upper limit. This upper limit, determined by the mechanism use...

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Literature Corpus work: f164af48-7ce3-5a34-8a2f-5be9d9cb65dd
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/8sfpd_v2

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