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Zi Y. Zhao

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Case report Open access Sep 2026

Better Technology, Worse Motivation: Generative Artificial Intelligence’s Mediocrity Trap

This paper examines how generative artificial intelligence (AI) affects both productivity and motivation in creative work. In a randomized experiment, participants were asked to complete two illustration tasks with varying access to a text-to-image AI tool. By recording the production process and evaluating outputs eve...

Yvonne Jie Chen, Jie Gong, Jin Li et al. · 0 citations

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