AI-assisted outputs are more similar to each other than purely human-authored ones, indicating a homogenization risk¶

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q2 i? Research by Doshi and Hauser found AI-assisted creative outputs were more similar to each other than purely human-authored ones, and that AI assistance raised output quality of initially less creative individuals without significantly changing scores of initially highly creative ones. → Jean-Pierre Briot 2026

Evidence¶

Jean-Pierre Briot 2026¶

Jean-Pierre Briot. (2026). Challenges for Musical Education in the Age of AI and Digital Transformation. https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.05176 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2608.05176

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The article reports, citing Doshi and Hauser, that generative AI assistance "significantly raised the output quality of initially less creative individuals" while not significantly changing scores of initially highly creative ones, and that AI-assisted outputs were more similar to each other than human-authored ones. The article presents this second-hand, by analogy from creative writing.

"research by Doshi and Hauser [DH24] on creative writing – directly relevant by analogy – found that generative AI assistance significantly raised the output quality of initially less creative individuals, though it did not significantly change the scores of initially highly creative ones."

Discussion¶

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