AI RESEARCH

Ex Ante Evaluation of AI-Induced Idea Diversity Collapse

arXiv CS.AI

ArXi:2605.06540v1 Announce Type: new Creative AI systems are typically evaluated at the level of individual utility, yet creative outputs are consumed in populations: an idea loses value when many others produce similar ones. This creates an evaluation blind spot, as AI can improve individual outputs while increasing population-level crowding. We