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

This research represents an exploratory effort to try and bring together a number of different things: 1) first of all we wanted to explore the potential of AI as co-creating storytelling device - drawing on prompt design techniques we explored the possibilities and pitfalls employing various generative (visual and textual AI) tools to co-author a comic together with Large Language Models (LLM) like ChatGPT and Bing. 2) This comic should represent narratives that involve some type of media literacy, showing different ways in which people can critically engage with the media landscape they inhabit. It does so drawing on the 7 principles of media literacy introduced by Philips and Milner (2021). And 3) thirdly we wanted to put the storytelling power to work to see if we could reimagine dominant narratives you might encounter on social media of the topic of weight loss, expanding on previous research (Niederer et al 2023).