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Tom Yeung here with your Sunday Digest.
In 2025, two professors wanted to see whether ChatGPT made people less creative. And so, they recruited 356 participants and asked them to perform a series of tasks, including one in which they were to make a toy from a paper bag, a brick, and a fan.
The researchers forced some test subjects to use their own creativity. Others were given access to ChatGPT for help.
To no one’s surprise, the cohorts without AI came up with entirely unique ideas. (One suggested adopting the brick as a pet, while another proposed disassembling the fan and turning the parts into nunchucks.)
