Generative AI and Creativity: A Systematic Literature Review and Meta-Analysis
Across ages Creativity AI and learning
Links to claims
Limits (1)
| Claim | Basis |
|---|---|
| C2 | Meta (preprint): GenAI assistance raised creative-task performance with the tool (g = 0.27) and lowered idea diversity (g = −0.86). With-tool outcomes only, so it does not test C2's without-the-tool claim. Abstract only, preprint. |
Review state: first-pass draft, pending human review.
Source note
Syntes: Holzner (2025): humans working with GenAI scored higher on creative tasks (g = 0.27) but their ideas were much less diverse (g = −0.86)
Källa: Holzner, N.; Maier, S.; Feuerriegel, S. (2025). Generative AI and Creativity: A Systematic Literature Review and Meta-Analysis. arXiv:2505.17241 (preprint, not peer reviewed). https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.17241
Verified content (abstract (arXiv record, v1 2025-05-22); full text not read. PREPRINT, checked 2026-10-14)
- Design (abstract): systematic search, 28 studies (8,214 participants), Hedges g; creative writing, ideation, divergent-thinking tasks.
- Findings (abstract): GenAI alone vs humans: no significant difference (g = −0.05). Humans with GenAI vs without: g = 0.27. Diversity of ideas from humans with GenAI: g = −0.86.
- Limits: preprint; outcomes are performance during AI use, not unaided creativity afterwards; populations mostly adults (laypeople, business, academia).
Why it is in the library
Added in a targeted search for studies that measure creativity directly (theme: kreativitet), for Jonatan's lecture on creativity, AI and learning.
Metadata as recorded
- ID
- CRE-002
- Tier
- meta
- Creativity measured directly
- yes
- Titel
- Generative AI and Creativity: A Systematic Literature Review and Meta-Analysis
- Författare
- Holzner, N.; Maier, S.; Feuerriegel, S.
- År
- 2025 (arXiv preprint) (arXiv:2505.17241 (preprint, not peer reviewed))
- Källa/DOI
- https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.17241
- URL
- https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.17241
- Typ
- systematic review and meta-analysis, 28 studies, 8,214 participants
- Åldersgrupp
- overgripande
- Teman
- kreativitet;ai-och-larande
- Hämtad
- 2026-10-14
- Read
- abstract (arXiv record, v1 2025-05-22); full text not read. PREPRINT
- Tillagd
- creativity search 2026-10-14 (requested by Jonatan via Noll); links pending human review
- Full text (fetched 2026-10-16, legal open-access copy, private)
- fulltext.pdf + — via metadata-link: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.17241
The original files (PDF or abstract) are kept in the project archive and are not published here.