Four unpublished narratives generated by Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Lau Delgado, Media consultant, reflects on the unprecedented audiovisual narratives that AI technologies can generate.

The impact of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies It goes far beyond what we imagine. Its effects far exceed the simple debate about whether the work of content creators will be replaced by a machine. Behind all this process, there is the possible mutation of the productive and economic model of the creative industries caused by transformations in management; in the conception of authorship and in the arrival of new narratives that go far beyond what we know or imagine.

The big difference between AI technologies and previous ones is that they allow a trip to the center of the work. These new narratives allow the user to travel to the location where the action takes place, interact (if desired) with its protagonists and see the particles of information up close, in detail.

Given this panorama, I propose that we speculate about future narratives that are being born thanks to small experiences that are giving remarkable results—in the conceptual field. To bring this objective to fruition, I thought it appropriate to classify these unpublished narratives as if they were trips.

1. Tailor-made narrative: the à la carte trip

A colleague who specializes in electronic commerce and usability on the Internet and mobile platforms comments that pornographic industry It is the one that sets the standard in its sector. And this industry has been evolving for years the use of AI, Either for tag your millions of videos how to generate fake scenes. Ultimately, what the industry is looking for is a completely tailored experience, with the exact elements that the user wants to see or experience.

This on-demand “journey” may also become possible in different sectors of the world of creative industries, especially those that offer a creative process.

The custom creation can modify the conception of the figure of the artist or author and even that of the producer or editor.

Could there be an on-demand book publisher? A collection of books in which the user decides the type of plot, characters and locations? And each book is different? We will see... What we do already experience currently is the creating commercial videos using tags; the creation of custom illustrations: the preparation of literary essays à la carte or creation of original music from a series of instructions. All this generating a new authorship.

Custom creation can modify the conception of the figure of the artist or author and even that of the producer or editor. Factor that transforms, in a notable way, part of the organization of the business model of the creative industries. Even the cultural user can be considered as the author of what he consumes. A unprecedented paradox, in our system.

2. Locational narrative: travel in time and space

In the post “Back to the Future: what AI has in common with travel” (edited by Towards Data Science), Tim Gordon reflects on how AI can help travel in time and what are the dangers that this process would entail. Beyond the fantasy part of post, There is a reality that connects AI with travel to other worlds.

There is a reality that connects the IA with the travel to others worlds.

And at AI technology is capable of generating a past, future or imagined world described in a historical essay, novel, film, television fiction series or through any other narrative platform, AI will be able to recreate this world and users will have the possibility of interacting with he; whether through text, video, immersive technology, etc. We can comment on the play with Don Quixote; be victims of the repressive world of George Orwell in 1984; prepare the war ax to the dwarf Lord of the Rings, by Tolkien or sharing magic arrows with Mario Bros.

We are faced with the possibility of going from a passive experience to an active one, in which immersion occurs in imagined, coherent worlds and – sometimes – references of our culture.

3. Introspective narrative: the inner journey

In December 2022, the news of an artist (Michelle Huang) who spoke with her younger self through his diaries and through AI technology (recommended reading “Artist trains an AI chatbot with her diary and talks to her inner child”, en The Decoder).

This type of narrative journey contains a conjunction of elements until now unpublished in our ecosystem. It is a introspective, interactive narrative and that allows you to travel in time and to other locations. It is, therefore, a supervisors which can only be produced if the world to be generated has been described in detail in the diaries at a previous stage.

With certain narratives applied to AI, it is possible to maintain a dialogue between two ages of the same person as if it were a conversation of two people that coexist in the same reality.

As reported in the article Jonathan Kemper in The Decoder, it is possible to maintain a dialogue between two ages of the same person as if it were a conversation between two people who live together in the same reality.

Leaving aside the trip for pleasure or curiosity, this type of narrative can also have a educational and medical utility. Just as it can arouse high sociological interest, by allowing access to the way of thinking of a generation (if there is an accumulation of cases).

4. Inductive narrative: journey to the center of the thesis

If AI technology allows us to locate ourselves in concrete generated spaces and we dominate the tempo From our presence in these ecosystems, we will be able to know worlds and concrete realities in detail. We can even be observers in detail of the realities that arise in the different narratives, confirming or denying the author's thesis (whether human or artificial).

Despite the fears raised by this type of technologies, in the creative field, human beings will always have a outstanding role.

This type of role can be especially interesting when it comes to theses that are connected to reality. And they can be used not only to enjoy a journey to knowledge in an informative narrative, but they could also be useful for more official topics. For example, you could travel to a crime investigation or delve into the documentation of a legal conflict (through the implementation of the entire judicial case in AI).

(AI)tory and that which is undoubtedly human

A opens new stage in the world of narrative. A stage in which not only the concept of authorship can be blurred, but also that of the work and the conception of what it means to be a cultural consumer.

Despite the many fears that this new type of technology raises, in the creative field, the human being will always have a prominent role, whether in the creation or co-creation; management or co-management, or as (interactive) users of the creative fact. Furthermore, it is one thing for a technology to have the ability to create and quite another thing is that you have the ability to enjoy what you have created.

In short, its presence reminds us that, surely, the most important thing about a creative event is not the exalted figure of the creator (whether human or virtual), but rather our ability to enjoy the narrative that has been generated.

A faculty, this last one, undoubtedly human.

Lau Delgado

Media Consultant