Your AI gives everyone the same answer. Here's how to get the good ones it's hiding.
One prompt change makes your proposals and memos stand out from competitors.
Hey Adopter,
A Stanford team found that a single prompting change recovers most of the creative diversity that safety training stripped from your AI assistant. No retraining. No code. Copy one prompt template, and your brainstorming sessions get five times more raw material.
What the research proved
Researchers from Stanford and Northeastern tested why ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini produce the same predictable outputs. The answer: humans rate familiar text higher than creative text during AI training. Cognitive psychologists call this the mere-exposure effect.
When AI companies use human feedback to make models safer and more helpful, they accidentally train the model to suppress unusual ideas. The AI collapses toward “stereotypical” responses because those are what raters preferred.
The research team tested this on real preference datasets. Holding response correctness constant, raters still favoured more predictable answers. The bias was statistically present across multiple models and datasets.
The good news: the creativity wasn’t deleted. It was suppressed. And a prompt change brings it back.
