Jose Oros

And then what we're asking them to do is to use these outputs of this tool as, you know, as ideas that they can then incorporate and create their melodies.

So that was like the first part of our experiment where we have around 140 people come into our lab, create the melodies.

Some of them were assisted by the AI.

And then once we have the melodies, then we can move forward to that next step that is asking people, what do you think about it?

And specifically, how creative you think this is.

So interestingly enough, and we came in like, as I mentioned before, we thought that this is going to be something where just having access to more exemplars would definitely lead to an increase in creativity.

But we find the opposite.

So we don't find anything.

We don't find any increase in creativity.

We actually find that the melodies that were created under this treatment condition with the aid of Udio

actually lead to a small drop in the creativity ratings for those musicians that use the AI.

Yes, that's a very tough question, especially when you're studying something like creativity, right?

So there are different ways you think about creativity.

Some people study it as a verb, and some people study it as a noun, right?

So it's like a creative process that will be more related to a verb.

But in our case, we're looking at more on the sense of a noun.

the piece itself, in this case the music itself, we're actually thinking of it as, you know, people have this construct of what is creativity, and we're not telling you what creativity is, we're just, you know, letting you choose if this is something creative based on whatever framework you have around it.

And this is like something that's, you know, widely used in the literature to study this kind of questions where you have like this very abstract and sometimes subjective concepts.

I think so.

Honestly, when we had these participants come in, and even now, we had the participants, the musicians come in to create the melodies.