Creative AIs Depend on Creative Humans

From the day humans first began recording our stories, one thing has remained consistent: The form evolves. Innovations like paper, the printing press, and the internet have transformed how we document and distribute our literary endeavors, inspiring new ways of conceiving what storytelling and literature can be. But with the rise of chatbots like ChatGPT, the relationship between technology and the arts has fundamentally shifted—from one of distribution to one of creation.

One of the most debated questions, of course, is whether an AI’s creations can have any real . But in a preprint (it has not yet been peer reviewed).