After looking at the Codex Seraphinianus, The Visual Dome and reading the essay about an imagined film, how would you go about creating a visual and text presentation of a fictional world using AI tools?
To go about creating a fictional world using AI-tools, I believe structure and constraints are the most important tools you can use in order to produce content that follows a common enough theme to be considered from the same realm or universe.
What steps would you take?
Steps for this process would mostly consist of two stages at my current level of experience with AI tools such as Chat GPT and Midjourney.
The first stage is the most extensive and comprises of setting numerous rules and regulations on not only how the AI produces content, but also on the subject and content of feedback and discourse it provides. Tailoring the GPT to react to certain trains of thought and explore further possibilities along that path through suggestions and information is one of my favorite ways of receiving tailored feedback so far. At this stage I would also prepare the GPT ahead of time with the same kind of regulations and rules for image generation and allow it to automatically generate prompts off of important details picked up in the conversation stage of world building.
Setting limitations is also an important part of this stage, narrowing the focus of the GPT while adding additional rules that allow it to present alternatives to these limitations and second guess human decision making in order to spark deeper creativity.
The second and final stage of my current process is the conversation with the GPT or other AI program itself. This free flowing process is designed to be as casual conversational as possible, with open musings and questions alongside dictation of specific details of content. Through dialogue consisting of feedback, information, and suggestions, the AI compiles this information into a plausible world and is able to provide both a short and extremely detailed summary of key aspects of the world generated.
What are some themes and ideas you want explore in your world?
For this project, I would like to allow the GPT to explore alternate realities were AI is in an advanced stage of self-awareness and able to dictate, control, or guide humanity towards goals and aspirations of the AI’s choosing. Set more in the realm of fantasy rather then reality, I would like to create a world under this premise that provides opportunity for story-building to occur in a natural state through the careful choosing of oppositional elements and contrasting ideas.