Designing Participatory AI: Creative Professionals' Worries and Expectations about Generative AI
It addresses the potential disruption of generative AI in creative fields for professionals, but is incremental as it builds on existing discussions about AI and creativity.
The paper investigated creative professionals' concerns and expectations about generative AI through a qualitative survey of 23 participants, finding that AI advancements prompt reflections on creativity and how AI can support workflows, leading to a discussion on designing participatory AI to empower these professionals.
Generative AI, i.e., the group of technologies that automatically generate visual or written content based on text prompts, has undergone a leap in complexity and become widely available within just a few years. Such technologies potentially introduce a massive disruption to creative fields. This paper presents the results of a qualitative survey ($N$ = 23) investigating how creative professionals think about generative AI. The results show that the advancement of these AI models prompts important reflections on what defines creativity and how creatives imagine using AI to support their workflows. Based on these reflections, we discuss how we might design \textit{participatory AI} in the domain of creative expertise with the goal of empowering creative professionals in their present and future coexistence with AI.