Beyond Prompts: Exploring the Design Space of Mixed-Initiative Co-Creativity Systems

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Generative Artificial Intelligence systems have been developed for image, code, story, and game generation with the goal of facilitating human creativity.

• Recent work on neural generative systems has emphasized one particular means of interacting with AI systems: the user provides a specification, usually in the form of prompts, and the AI system generates the content.
• However, there are other configurations of human and AI coordination, such as co-creativity (CC) in which both human and AI systems can contribute to content creation, and mixed-initiative (MI) in which both human and AI systems can initiate content changes.
• In this paper, we define a hypothetical human-AI configuration design space consisting of different means for humans and AI systems to communicate creative intent to each other.