10 Questionnaire items and details

These are the items of the questionnaire required to access MediaBots. With the exception of the first item, which is in the form of an open-ended question, all other items are in the form of a 6-point Likert-scale question with options:

1. Strongly Disagree

2. Disagree

3. Slightly Disagree

4. Slightly Agree

5. Agree

6. Strongly Agree

The first 5 items are aimed at measuring the participant’s knowledge and intuition about how this technology works, as well as their expectations about image alignment with the text prompts.

1. Based on what you currently know, how will text-to-image technology affect your creative process? [Open question]

2. I understand how this technology interprets keywords to generate images.

3. I can imagine how this technology interprets keywords to generate images.

4. I expect this technology to interpret the keywords in a similar way as humans do

5. I expect generated pictures to be an accurate visual representation of the keywords

The next 10 questions are attempting to measure the psychological construct of tolerance for ambiguity, adapted from (Herman et al. 2010):

1. I like to surround myself with things that are familiar to me.

2. The sooner we all share similar ideals the better.

3. A desirable job is one where what is to be done is always clear.

4. I prefer a life with few surprises.

5. What we are used to is preferable to what is unfamiliar.

6. I prefer settings where people share my values.

7. I like parties where the attendees are strangers.

8. I can enjoy being with people whose values are different from mine.

9. I would like to live in a foreign country for a while.

10. I can be comfortable with all kinds of people.