Every time you let AI finish the thought, your ideas drift a little closer to everyone else's. This measures how far yours can still fly — and gives you a 5-minute game that stretches the distance back out.
Researchers score creativity by measuring how far apart in meaning your words are. Tap the box — these are real distances, measured by the same model that will score you:
That's the whole test (the Divergent Association Task). Your score is the average distance between your words. Sounds trivial. Isn't — your brain hates leaving its neighborhoods, and autopilot (or letting AI pick your words) pulls everything into a huddle:
The counter-move: deliberately invent things that don't go together — a romance novel for dishwasher manuals, a tank-repair guide in ancient-treaty language. It forces your brain out of its huddle, and the retest usually shows it:
10 single words, as unrelated to each other as possible — one word per box is the official test's rule (nouns work best). Your two-word genre mashups belong in the stretch game, where anything goes. No AI help — related words collapse your score, and the model can tell.
Sparked by @lizthedeveloper's
reel on the genre-clash exercise — she's the reason this exists, go follow her.
Based on the Divergent Association Task (Olson et al., PNAS 2021); this is an unofficial, embedding-based homage: same idea, different math.
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