AI Storytelling
AI Storytelling is a creative framework that pairs the ancient art of storytelling and art-making with artificial intelligence to preserve cultural memory and bring communities together.
AI Storytelling is employed in classrooms, cultural centers, and workshops. It preserves community knowledge, enhances mental health, and creates meaningful connections.
Left: An AI generated image based on a participant's lived experience. Right: The participant's painting made from the AI generated image based on the participant's lived experience.
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A participant follows guided instructions to bring her lived experience to life in a painting during a class using the Framework for Artificial Intelligence Storytelling.
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AI Storytelling aims to revolutionize conventional approaches to community art-making and cultural preservation by introducing new technologies to participants while integrating oral histories and traditional narrative painting. This accessible, cost-effective framework can alleviate mental health challenges such as anxiety and loneliness while preserving and sharing cultural heritage across generations.
A participant collaborates with the instructor to edit the AI generated image.
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The instructor illustrates step-by-step guidance to starting a drawing based on an AI generated image inspired by a participant's story.
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How AI Storytelling functions:
Participants begin by sharing a story from their lives with the instructor. The instructor then types the story into a text-to-image artificial intelligence system. Based on the participant's story, the resulting realistic AI-generated image is used as a reference to create a painting. The instructor guides the participants step by step in creating their paintings as participants engage meaningfully with each other's stories in a creative and supportive environment. Participants build their artwork following the instructor's guidance, ensuring they are supported throughout the process. During or after art making, the instructor interviews the participants about the story, inspiration, and personal symbolism behind their artwork. The participant has complete control over their artwork, story, and interview.
Participants begin by sharing a story from their lives with the instructor. The instructor then types the story into a text-to-image artificial intelligence system. Based on the participant's story, the resulting realistic AI-generated image is used as a reference to create a painting. The instructor guides the participants step by step in creating their paintings as participants engage meaningfully with each other's stories in a creative and supportive environment. Participants build their artwork following the instructor's guidance, ensuring they are supported throughout the process. During or after art making, the instructor interviews the participants about the story, inspiration, and personal symbolism behind their artwork. The participant has complete control over their artwork, story, and interview.
Artwork from a participant telling the story of her mother teaching her a traditional family recipe for making masa on a metate and cooking the resulting tortillas on a traditional comal in their one-room house in El Salvador in the 1960s. The participant shared the artwork, digital image of the artwork, and the corresponding oral history recording (17 minutes) with geographically distant family members in Latin America.
AI Storytelling preserves knowledge while connecting communities and distant relations, as participants' artwork and oral histories' recorded knowledge can be shared with friends, family members, and future generations.
