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2026
Why AI Starves Without Human Creativity: Measuring and Renewing the Epistemic Commons
Generative AI appears to the user as one intelligence, although its competence draws on traces left by populations. We call the machine Shannon’s demon. It can starve amid an abundance of text: when human effort declines and outputs of the same models fill the corpus, volume grows while variety and independence contrac...
Tomasz Kopczewski, Tomasz Potocki, Norbert Jaworski et al.
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