(in progress) Co-Storytelling with AI in Games

Understanding the Perception, Interaction Patterns, and Storytelling Strategy of AI Dungeon Users on Reddit

Abstract

The recent advancement in text generation technology driven by artificial intelligence (#AI) has brought new opportunities and challenges to storytelling, calling for collaboratory storytelling (#co-storytelling) with AI. Co-storytelling with AI is expected to create a unique experience for the writer/user. Despite the promise and expectation, little is known about people’s actual experience with AI co-storytelling, including users’ perception of this co-storytelling, the interaction patterns between the user and the AI system and the storytelling strategy used. This gap in knowledge may limit the potential of co-storytelling with AI, and hamper our understanding of AI, storytelling and users. Therefore, this study presents a content analysis of the posts on Reddit made by users of AI Dungeon, a system which produces text-based role-playing stories made by generative AI.

Keywords

Co-storytelling, artificial intelligence, user perception, interaction patterns, storytelling strategy, AI Dungeon, Reddit