The AI Creativity Paradox: Every Chatbot Gives You the Same 'Creative' Answer
You’ve asked ChatGPT to brainstorm. The ideas came back sharp, polished, surprisingly good. You felt clever for using it. Here’s the problem: so did everyone else. And they all got the same ideas. A paper published this week in PNAS Nexus by researchers Emily Wenger and Yoed N. Kenett has coined what might be 2026’s most important AI concept: homogeneous creativity. The finding is deceptively simple and deeply unsettling — while individual AI responses can match or beat average human creativity scores, the collective output of large language models is startlingly uniform. ...