AI as Humanity's Salieri: Quantifying Linguistic Creativity of Language Models via Systematic Attribution of Machine Text against Web Text

Ximing Lu, Melanie Sclar, Skyler Hallinan, Niloofar Mireshghallah, Jiacheng Liu +6 more
2/12/2026

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@article{lu2026humanitys,
  title  = {AI as Humanity's Salieri: Quantifying Linguistic Creativity of Language Models via Systematic Attribution of Machine Text against Web Text},
  author = {Ximing Lu and Melanie Sclar and Skyler Hallinan and Niloofar Mireshghallah and Jiacheng Liu and Seungju Han and Allyson Ettinger and Liwei Jiang and K. Chandu and Nouha Dziri and Yejin Choi},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:eeb89c5540be74f0021b4dcf5e64ca3b06f101a5},
  journal = {ICLR 2025 2025}
}

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