Being the writing human in the Generative AI loop

Dr Sarah Gibson Yates, Anglia Ruskin University, will explore how creative writers can approach creative writing with artificial intelligence by adopting a critical and playful mindset of experimentation alongside traditional practice skills.

The third of a series of events as part of AI Collaborations Series II. Reflections on the use of generative artificial intelligence in Higher Education.

Writers are rightly sceptical about AI’s tendency towards conformity and plagiarism, with some even describing AI-generated text as theft. In a recent BA-funded project I decided to face the would-be enemy head-on and investigate how AI might be used to support original and radical creative practice in screenwriting. Drawing on insights from a recent British Academy-funded research project I will explore how thinking of myself as the human in the loop with AI's specific strengths and limits, can generate exciting new ways of approaching drafting and revisions.