{"id":3026,"date":"2024-03-04T13:21:08","date_gmt":"2024-03-04T18:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dbi\/?p=3026"},"modified":"2024-03-06T09:30:18","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T14:30:18","slug":"generative-ai-human-creativity-and-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dbi\/2024\/03\/04\/generative-ai-human-creativity-and-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Generative AI, Human Creativity and Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exciting news! Our esteemed Digital Business Institute Research Fellow, DK Lee, along with co-author Eric Zhou, have had their paper accepted and will be forthcoming at PNAS Nexus on March 5th. Their paper, Generative AI, Human Creativity, and Art, is based on a large dataset and robust econometric methods, is the first of its kind to explore the relationship between generative AI, human creativity, and art. Some findings:<\/p>\n<p>After adopting Text-to-Image Models like Midjourney\/Dall-e\/Stable Diffusion:<br \/>\n\ud83c\udfa8 Artists produce 2X more (first month), stabling off to 25%<br \/>\n\ud83c\udfa8 Their art rating goes up to 50% more over time<br \/>\n\ud83c\udfa8 While peak content novelty (focal objects and object relationships) increases over time, average content novelty declines, suggesting an expanding but inefficient creative space<br \/>\n\ud83c\udfa8 AI adoption decreased value capture (favorites earned) concentration among the adopted<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\uddbc\ufe0fThe results imply that ideation and likely filtering are necessary skills in the text-to-image process, thus giving rise to \u201cgenerative synesthesia\u201d &#8211; the harmonious blending of human senses and AI mechanics to discover new creative workflows.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/pnasnexus\/article\/3\/3\/pgae052\/7618478?login=false\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Check out the paper<\/a> on SSRN and join the discussion on the future of art and generative synesthesia.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/dbi\/files\/2024\/03\/DK-creativity-research-image-636x636.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"636\" height=\"636\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3027\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dbi\/files\/2024\/03\/DK-creativity-research-image-636x636.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dbi\/files\/2024\/03\/DK-creativity-research-image.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dbi\/files\/2024\/03\/DK-creativity-research-image-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dbi\/files\/2024\/03\/DK-creativity-research-image-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dbi\/files\/2024\/03\/DK-creativity-research-image-700x700.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dbi\/files\/2024\/03\/DK-creativity-research-image-189x189.jpg 189w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dbi\/files\/2024\/03\/DK-creativity-research-image-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exciting news! Our esteemed Digital Business Institute Research Fellow, DK Lee, along with co-author Eric Zhou, have had their paper accepted and will be forthcoming at PNAS Nexus on March 5th. Their paper, Generative AI, Human Creativity, and Art, is based on a large dataset and robust econometric methods, is the first of its kind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10230,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,26,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dbi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3026"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dbi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dbi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dbi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10230"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dbi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3026"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dbi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3042,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dbi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3026\/revisions\/3042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dbi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dbi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dbi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}