How Strong Is the Evidence for the Artificial Hivemind? Reevaluating Evidence for the Open-Ended Homogeneity of Language Models

Recent research argues that language models exhibit pronounced homogeneity in open-ended generation, framing such behavior as an Artificial Hivemind that poses a long-term threat to human creativity. We examine three of its central results. First, the flagship example is that model responses to "Wri