Effect of monetary incentives on creative writing quality
Determine whether monetary incentives provided to MFA-trained writers enhance, diminish, or have no effect on the quality of creative writing produced in experimental settings, given the role of intrinsic motivation in artistic work.
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While we offered MFA students a lucrative rate for writing the excerpts, it's unclear if monetary incentives actually enhanced their creative output, since intrinsic motivation typically drives the best artistic work.
— Readers Prefer Outputs of AI Trained on Copyrighted Books over Expert Human Writers
(Chakrabarty et al., 15 Oct 2025) in Limitations