Wednesday, July 08, 2026

Prompting is creative communication

The creative abilities of GenAI models are artificial, not genuinely human. However, with human assistance, GenAI can produce creative content. But, as shown in experiments, GenAI (DALL-E3) output, which are clear and measurable, depend on user prompts (written instructions) as much as models*. This highlights how prompting is about communication which in turn reflects how verbalisation (words) is the most common means of human communication. This in turn suggests prompting is a creative process as well as a skill - a skill that improve with practice. In short, GenAI models need human intervention to produce independent creative output. *https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/study-generative-ai-results-depend-user-prompts-much-models