Degree of Novelty in Generative AI Outputs

Determine the extent to which outputs produced by generative AI systems constitute mere reproductions of pre-existing human creativity and ingenuity rather than genuinely novel content, and establish how this extent varies across domains of content generation.

Background

The paper analyzes how generative AI and LLMs may reshape collective intelligence and institutional epistemology. A central issue for this transformation is whether generative AI genuinely creates novel content or primarily reproduces and recombines existing human-generated material.

Resolving the novelty question bears on how agency and creativity are redistributed between human and AI systems, the status of generative AI as an automation technology, and the epistemological standards applicable to AI-generated outputs in professional and organizational domains.

References

The degree to which the outputs of Generative AI amount to mere ersatz reproductions of genuine human creativity and ingenuity is currently an open question.

— The Epistemological Consequences of Large Language Models: Rethinking collective intelligence and institutional knowledge (2512.19570 - Hila, 22 Dec 2025) in Section “Paradigms of Automation”