"It Felt Like Having a Second Mind": Investigating Human-AI Co-creativity in Prewriting with Large Language Models

arXiv:2307.10811v3 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Prewriting is the process of discovering and developing ideas before a first draft, which requires divergent thinking and often implies unstructured strategies such as diagramming, outlining, free-writing, etc. Although large language models (LLMs) have been demonstrated to be useful for a variety of tasks including creative writing, little is known about how users would collaborate with LLMs to support prewriting. The preferred collaborative role and initiative of LLMs during such a creativity process is also …

abstract arxiv creativity cs.ai cs.cl cs.hc divergent thinking draft etc free human ideas language language models large language large language models llms mind process strategies thinking type unstructured writing