Exploration vs. Fixation: Scaffolding Divergent and Convergent Thinking for Human-AI Co-Creation with Generative Models

ArXi:2512.18388v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Generative AI has cratized content creation, but popular chatbot-based interfaces often prioritize execution, generating fully rendered artifacts right away. This issue can lead to premature convergence and design fixation, where users are being anchored to initial outputs. Recent works have proposed new interfaces to address this issue by ing exploration, though typically constrained to be semantically close to a user's initial task framing, potentially limiting the creativity of the outcomes.