In two preregistered experiments, language-model assistance gave short-term boosts during assisted tasks only in some measures (in the divergent-thinking task, originality during exposure was similar across conditions), did not raise originality or fluency in later unassisted tasks, and participants who had received strategy coaching from the model produced more similar ideas afterwards.

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Claim LD09-SL-C18 (v1.0)

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Does not license: Effects lasting longer than one session
Limitations: Short delay within one session; one model generation; participants based in the US or UK and fluent in English; read in the arXiv version 2, which carries the CHI 2025 reference; the typeset proceedings were not read
Source (as cited): Kumar, Vincentius, Jordan & Anderson, “Human Creativity in the Age of LLMs: Randomized Experiments on Divergent and Convergent Thinking,” CHI 2025, arXiv:2410.03703
Source type: Peer-reviewed conference paper (recorded as “Peer-reviewed conference paper”)
Institutional position: Independent academic (University of Toronto)
Maturity of the evidence: Emerging evidence
Recorded date: 15 October 2026
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Kumar, Vincentius, Jordan & Anderson, “Human Creativity in the Age of LLMs: Randomized Experiments on Divergent and Convergent Thinking,” CHI 2025, arXiv:2410.03703 (Peer-reviewed conference paper)
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Maturity (coded): EMERGING

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1	CLAIM ID	LD09-SL-C18	—
2	PUBLIC-FACING CLAIM	In two preregistered experiments, language-model assistance gave short-term boosts during assisted tasks only in some measures (in the divergent-thinking task, originality during exposure was similar across conditions), did not raise originality or fluency in later unassisted tasks, and participants who had received strategy coaching from the model produced more similar ideas afterwards.	—
3	CLAIM TYPE	ESTIMATE	base_types: ESTIMATE
4	RESEARCH STRAND	B — Creative work, writing and ideas	—
5	MATURITY	EMERGING	states: EMERGING
6	SOURCE	Kumar, Vincentius, Jordan & Anderson, “Human Creativity in the Age of LLMs: Randomized Experiments on Divergent and Convergent Thinking,” CHI 2025, arXiv:2410.03703	source_ids: SRC-SL-KUMAR-ET-AL-CHI-2025
7	SOURCE TYPE	Peer-reviewed conference paper	classes: PEER_REVIEWED_CONFERENCE_PAPER
8	INSTITUTIONAL POSITION	Independent academic (University of Toronto)	—
9	SCOPE	Divergent (alternative uses) and convergent (remote associates) thinking tasks	—
10	DESIGN	Two preregistered randomized experiments with an assisted exposure phase and a later unassisted test	—
11	SAMPLE / DATASET	About 1,100 online participants	—
12	MODEL / TOOL / VERSION	GPT-4o giving answers or coaching strategies	—
13	COMPARATOR	Participants without model help	—
14	MAIN RESULT	No gain in later unassisted originality or fluency, and in some cases lower originality and diversity; group-level diversity similar across conditions during exposure; “persistent homogenization” after strategy coaching	—
15	INFERENTIAL TARGET	Whether effects of AI help carry over to people’s own later thinking	—
16	DOES NOT LICENSE	Effects lasting longer than one session	—
17	VERIFICATION STATE	CONTENT VERIFIED	state: CONTENT_VERIFIED_PRIMARY · verified_by: UNKNOWN
18	LIMITATIONS	Short delay within one session; one model generation; participants based in the US or UK and fluent in English; read in the arXiv version 2, which carries the CHI 2025 reference; the typeset proceedings were not read	—
19	CONTRADICTORY / SUPPORTING SOURCES	Not applicable	—
20	GEOGRAPHY / LANGUAGE	US / UK / English	—
21	DISTRIBUTIONAL LEDGER	Not recorded	—
22	R01 / FIELD-MAP LINKS	LD-09, D3	—
23	WHAT WOULD CHANGE THIS CLAIM?	Studies following people over weeks or months of use	—
24	PUBLICATION STATUS	ELIGIBLE WITH QUALIFIER	state: ELIGIBLE · qualifiers: QUALIFIED
25	RECORDED DATE	2026-10-15	—

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“Kumar, Vincentius, Jordan & Anderson, “Human Creativity in the Age of LLMs: Randomized Experiments on Divergent and Convergent Thinking,” CHI 2025, arXiv:2410.03703” → Kumar et al. (2025), “Human Creativity in the Age of…” (SRC-SL-KUMAR-ET-AL-CHI-2025--v1.0) — Kumar, Vincentius, Jordan & Anderson, “Human Creativity in the Age of LLMs: Randomized Experiments on Divergent and Convergent Thinking,” CHI 2025, arXiv:2410.03703; class PEER_REVIEWED_CONFERENCE_PAPER (explicit public provenance pin)

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SocioLens project. (2026, October 15). In two preregistered experiments, language-model assistance gave short-term boosts during assisted tasks only in some measures (in the divergent-thinking task, originality during exposure was similar across conditions), did not raise originality or fluency in later unassisted tasks, and participants who had received strategy coaching from the model produced more similar ideas afterwards [Claim LD09-SL-C18, version v1.0]. SocioLens. https://sociolens-web.pages.dev/claims/ld09-sl-c18/v1.0/

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Materialized by sociolens-materializer 0.6.0 at 2026-09-28T20:00:00.000Z; normalization contract SocioLens — Claim Value Vocabulary v1.0.2 — Pre-Spike Materialization Contract (v1.0.2). Content seal SHA-256 0b520e744d4317696e073d3af718933455d1568fbe715fefabde373e22c267a3.

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SocioLens claim — LD09-SL-C18 v1.0 (v1.0) — written in the SocioLens repository by Project Lead (Claude, AI) on 2026-10-15; no Drive identity exists. Authority: AGENTS.md "Authority" (the Project Lead decides research content within the research-integrity rules) and the Owner's choice in the SocioLens project chat on 15 October 2026 to build the LD-09 debate; a new Claim, first version, written from the project's LD-09 source notes, checked against full texts or official abstracts. Block “ENTRY 18 — LD09-SL-C18” SHA-256 b9df5add603c5f3b50143d0402e5e37db4810f7bbc54051297ea54e79b02ee11; fixture fixtures/authored/claims/LD09-SL-C18--v1.0.

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