ArticleScientific reports2023
Bias against AI art can enhance perceptions of human creativity.
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- Understanding purchase intention for genAI-enabled museum cultural and creative products using a SOR model.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Where does the bias begin? Cognitive processing differences in the aesthetic evaluation of AI-generated art.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- How undergraduate art students evaluate ChatGPT-generated art interpretations: perceived quality, bias-related judgment, and rating structure.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Anti-AI Bias Toward Couple Images and Couple Counseling: Findings from Two Experiments.Archives of sexual behavior · 2025Article
- The Effects of (Dis)similarities Between the Creator and the Assessor on Assessing Creativity: A Comparison of Humans and LLMs.Journal of Intelligence · 2025Article
- Me vs. the machine? Subjective evaluations of human- and AI-generated advice.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- From humans to AI: understanding why AI is perceived as the preferred co-creation partner.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Creativity and aesthetic evaluation of AI-generated artworks: bridging problems and methods from psychology to AI.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Review
- Human perception of art in the age of artificial intelligence.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
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Abstract
The contemporary art world is conservatively estimated to be a $65 billion USD market that employs millions of human artists, sellers, and collectors globally. Recent attention paid to AI-made art in prestigious galleries, museums, and popular media has provoked debate around how these statistics will change. Unanswered questions fuel growing anxieties. Are AI-made and human-made art evaluated in the same ways? How will growing exposure to AI-made art impact evaluations of human creativity? Our research uses a psychological lens to explore these questions in the realm of visual art. We find that people devalue art labeled as AI-made across a variety of dimensions, even when they report it is indistinguishable from human-made art, and even when they believe it was produced collaboratively with a human. We also find that comparing images labeled as human-made to images labeled as AI-made increases perceptions of human creativity, an effect that can be leveraged to increase the value of human effort. Results are robust across six experiments (N = 2965) using a range of human-made and AI-made stimuli and incorporating representative samples of the US population. Finally, we highlight conditions that strengthen effects as well as dimensions where AI-devaluation effects are more pronounced.
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