I’m collaborating with Jack Tsao, Associate Director of HKU’s Common Core, on a very fun project exploring how students can write creatively with AI text and image generators. There’s been a lot of discussion recently about how AI threatens conventional conceptions of originality and creativity, and we’re interested in approaching from a different direction: how can AI foster fruitful creative collaboration? We’re working with undergrads at both CUHK and HKU to write poems, fiction, and graphic novels collaboratively with GPT-3, DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion. I’m especially interested in learning how AI text generators can help clarify for students some key values of creative writing: freshness, depth, relevance, surprise, even duende. Our grant will also support publication of the students’ best work. We’ll present our initial findings at ICLT 2023 in a paper called “Artificial Intelligence Text and Image Generation for Student Co-creativity within Higher Education.”