<html aria-label="message body"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><p class="p1"><font size="4">Dear colleagues,</font></p><p class="p1"><font size="4">I would like to draw your attention to a recently published paper (21 January 2026) on creativity in humans and large language models:</font></p><p class="c-bibliographic-information__citation" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-top: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4">Bellemare-Pepin, A., Lespinasse, F., Thölke, P. <span style="box-sizing: inherit;">et al.</span> Divergent creativity in humans and large language models. <span style="box-sizing: inherit;">Sci Rep</span> <span style="box-sizing: inherit;">16</span>, 1279 (2026). <a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-25157-3">https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-25157-3</a> (open access)</font></p><p class="p1"><font size="4">I am not promoting this research. However, given that the linguistic community’s initial engagement with LLMs began with labels such as “stochastic parrots”—and that discussions still often revolve around whether (and how far) it is appropriate to humanize these systems—it is worth noting that researchers outside linguistics are conducting large-scale experiments that seem to reveal interesting facts about language use and writing habits. <span style="color: rgb(14, 14, 14);">In this case, the creativity of a large number of humans (N = 100,000) is </span><span style="color: rgb(14, 14, 14);">assessed</span><span style="color: rgb(14, 14, 14);"> alongside current large language models.</span></font></p><p class="p1"><font size="4">Best,</font></p><p class="p1"><font size="4">Stela</font></p><div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; 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