Towards an operative definition of creative writing: a preliminary assessment of creativeness in AI and human texts

Chiara Maggi, Andrea Vitaletti


Abstract
Nowadays, AI is present in all our activities. This pervasive presence is perceived as a threat by many category of users that might be substituted by their AI counterpart. While the potential of AI in handling repetitive tasks is clear, the potentials of its creativeness is still misunderstood. We believe that understanding this aspects of AI can transform a threat into an opportunity. This paper is a first attempt to provide a measurable definition of creativeness. We applied our definition to AI and human generated texts, proving the viability of the proposed approach. Our preliminary experiments show that human texts are more creative.
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2025.wraicogs-1.5
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Proceedings of the First Workshop on Writing Aids at the Crossroads of AI, Cognitive Science and NLP (WRAICOGS 2025)
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January
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2025
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Abu Dhabi, UAE
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Michael Zock, Kentaro Inui, Zheng Yuan
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International Committee on Computational Linguistics
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45–52
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Chiara Maggi and Andrea Vitaletti. 2025. Towards an operative definition of creative writing: a preliminary assessment of creativeness in AI and human texts. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Writing Aids at the Crossroads of AI, Cognitive Science and NLP (WRAICOGS 2025), pages 45–52, Abu Dhabi, UAE. International Committee on Computational Linguistics.
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