ArticleFrontiers in psychology2026
Where does the bias begin? Cognitive processing differences in the aesthetic evaluation of AI-generated art.
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Drawing on the Pleasure-Interest Model of Aesthetic Liking (PIA model), we investigated whether the negative bias toward AI-generated art arises primarily during perceiver-driven controlled processing rather than stimulus-driven automatic processing. Across three experiments in which all presented artworks were exclusively AI-generated while only the creator labels were manipulated, we showed that this bias does not primarily stem from rapid, stimulus-driven automatic processing. Instead, it emerges predominantly during controlled processing. The results indicated that the negative bias was markedly smaller under conditions favoring automatic processing than under conditions inducing controlled processing. Moreover, providing interpretive semantic cues-brief textual descriptions that support meaning construction during controlled processing-significantly mitigated the bias against AI-generated art.
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