I do not think that the AI model used, more specifically, Copilot, demonstrated creativity. Going from Bhatia’s definition: “Something that demonstrates both novelty and usefulness” (Bhatia, 2025). This definition includes that creativity is involved in novelty and being useful, but lacks the full palette that creativity can show and be defined as through human experiences, thoughts, and ideas. In class on Thursday, AI merged the definitions together and more or less described exactly that creativity is defined as something that demonstrates novelty and usefulness, not totally getting out what the concept of creativity truly encapsulates, relating to the reading on Tuesday that discussed Bhatia’s definition, with AI lacking the human capacity of synthesis.

Regarding how AI did not appear as creative, I asked Copilot with a prompt of: “Please construct a poem in the style of Shel Silverstein regarding the theme of compassion, with a four-stanza maximum.” It responded with this:

In the Pocket of My Pocket

I found a little kindness In the pocket of my coat— It must’ve slipped in quietly Like a whisper on a note.

I handed it to someone Who looked chilly in the rain, And suddenly the cloudy world Felt warm and bright again.

They passed it to another Who had dropped their heavy day, And soon that tiny kindness Grew too big to tuck away.

So now I check my pockets Every morning, just to see— ’Cause compassion has a funny way Of finding its way back to me.

The first area that jumped out at me was its unexciting and boring nature. I expected the LLM to generate a Silverstain-like poem that would be difficult to compare to a real one, but this was not the case. The big thing about Shel Silverstein is that his poems are stories that you can really visualize and can take values from. This AI poem almost forces this sense of compassion to you without any buildup and personalization. I do not believe that this output was creative at all. The framing of the word choice and rhyming was in the realm of Silverstein, but the lack of storytelling and personalization instantly made me see this poem as artificial intelligence. Bhatia offers that: “This is the aspect of creativity that AI lacks. It doesn’t feel tension. It doesn’t labor through ambiguity. It doesn’t explore. Where AI can offer 10 answers to a problem instantly, humans may wrestle for years to arrive at one — but it could be the only one that matters” (Bhatia, 2025). This AI constructed poem perfectly describes AI lacking and not feeling tension, operating without any internal struggle that encompasses every human when putting their relationships, thoughts, and experiences into their own creativity.

My definition of creativity would be having the ability to generate original ideas through experiences, personalization, thoughts, and feelings that can act as problem-solving tools, as well as work in the realm of art. This definition connects with Bhatia in the sense that AI lacks the human capacity of synthesis that truly encapsulates what creativity is, but adds to it, focusing on creativity as a pivotal tool in problem-solving and artistic ways.

The experiments engaged upon this week made me think a lot about what creativity should be defined as. The term is veyr ambiguous and personalized, but because it is personalized, it showed how AI lacks the true nature of creativity and is incapable at this moment of using the human capacity of synthesis in encapsulating relationships, experiences, and thoughts, which contribute heavily to what creativity is and how it is generated. These experiments allowed me to envision my own writing process and how my own creativity is sparked, which I’ve found a lot of the time comes from previous experiences and being able to attribute those to acting as problem-solving tools, as well as artistic value. AI would be useful in helping to aid with topic brainstorming and importing my information and getting an output of a chart or area of organizartion, but relying on AI to showcase creativity is not what I would recommend.

Reference: Bhatia, A. (2025, April 7). The artifact isn’t the art: Rethinking creativity in the age of AI. Freethink. https://www.freethink.com/opinion/studio-ghibli-chatgpt-creativity?utm_source=tldrai