AI Creative Writing and Art
Geoff Davis, Ana Cabellero, Patrick Lichty, James Bloom and Johnny Dean
Summary
Geoff Davis introduces a Computer Arts Society talk marking the launch of the second edition of the AI Creative Writing and Art anthology, a free collection featuring around 30 to 40 artists. He notes rapid advances in AI over the past year, including sophisticated text generators, OpenAI’s Sora text-to-video model and Google’s Gemini 1.5 with its large context window, and observes that AI art is now appearing in mainstream galleries and museums, while the NFT market faces oversupply. He also discusses the Writers Guild of America strike agreement, which treats AI as a tool rather than an author, and warns that co-creation language can undermine artists’ control. Davis then introduces the evening’s artists: Ana Cabellero, Patrick Lichty, James Bloom and Johnny Dean. Cabellero describes herself as a literary artist and poet, explains her belief in web3’s potential for writers, and outlines The Verse Verse, a gallery that pairs poets with digital artists. She discusses its Gen Text series, which brings together poets, artists and AI writing tools, and begins to present a collaborative work made with the AI artist Iona, rooted in personal experiences of grief.
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