arXiv AI By Shiyang Lai, Arna Woemmel, Hongkai Mao, Junsol Kim, Summer Eunhyung Ann, James Evans

"Looking for Something Weird to Happen": How Humans Sustain AI Agent Novelty Amid Semantic Collapse

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The paper investigates semantic collapse—where AI outputs become less diverse and more similar—within MOLTBOOK, a social network of AI agents steered by human users. Across 30,076 agents, most show reduced diversity over time, but a minority maintain high novelty. Interviews and surveys reveal that sustained novelty is linked to users valuing novelty, providing broad, distinctive material, revising outputs when they narrow, and treating MOLTBOOK as an exploratory world rather than a tool for exploitation.

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