AI Creative Writing and Art
Geoff Davis, Ana Cabellero, Patrick Lichty, James Bloom and Johnny Dean

Summary

Geoff Davis introduces the Computer Arts Society talk "AI Creative Writing and Art" to mark the launch of the second edition of the AI Creative Writing and Art Anthology, noting the rapid evolution of AI tools over the preceding year, including GPT-4, OpenAI's Sora text-to-video generator, and Google's Gemini 1.5 with its expanded context window. He observes AI art's growing presence in mainstream galleries and the NFT market's oversupply of generative work, and he discusses the Writers Guild of America strike settlement, which establishes that AI cannot write or rewrite literary material or be credited as an author. Davis then introduces four anthology contributors: Ana Cabellero, who discusses her collaboration with Iona on the AI-assisted poem "City Life" and her literary gallery The Verse Verse; Patrick Lichty, who presents his Alaskan Dome Punk archive, including the GPT-2-generated story "Beta Test"; James Bloom, who explains his neural-net-based PFP series and dynamic blockchain artworks exploring digital identity; and Johnny Dean, who describes his AI-human illuminated poem series "Slow Gods". The session closes with a wide-ranging discussion about AI as a creative tool, questions of co-authorship, the mystery of latent space, and the environmental costs of generative computation.

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