The Art in Artificial: AI as Co-Creation Storytelling Device

In their book ‘You are Here,’ Philips and Milner describe different principles as a starting point for what they call ‘ecology literacy.’ They define ‘ecology literacy’ as a form of media literacy that draws on various ecological metaphors to understand the media landscape as inherently networked and interdependent, in which the user is situated and to which it is always contributing with its presence. Whereas this form of media literacy seems promising, the authors do not provide the tools to operationalize such a framework. To develop new understandings of media literacy, we would like to experiment with generative AI tools for storytelling co-creation purposes. AI is often seen as a "black box", with little understanding of how this technology works and what roles it might have in everyday content one creates or encounters online. The unpredictability of the “black box”, in this project, was used to explore various generative AI tools and prompting techniques for storytelling purposes drawing on the theme of ‘weight loss’ as a case-study.
In this project we’ll explore various generative AI tools and prompting techniques for storytelling purposes drawing on existing and still-to-be collected datasets on specific topics. This is to exemplify how a topic is discussed / covered in specific corners of the internet, in order to promote a so-called situated understanding of the media landscape we navigate in.