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Style Over Story: A Process-Oriented Study of Authorial Creativity in Large Language Models
Donghoon Jung, Jiwoo Choi, Songeun Chae, Seohyon Jung
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02025

Style Over Story: A Process-Oriented Study of Authorial Creativity in Large Language Models
Evaluations of large language models (LLMs)' creativity have focused primarily on the quality of their outputs rather than the processes that shape them. This study takes a process-oriented approach, drawing on narratology to examine LLMs as computational authors. We introduce constraint-based decision-making as a lens for authorial creativity. Using controlled prompting to assign authorial personas, we analyze the creative preferences of the models. Our findings show that LLMs consistently emp…