One of the ways that LLMs can change the way that we create is their capacity to assist in the process of coding. Writing coding with these platforms is a dialogic process. While the works can still be considered to be human-authored, they are also clearly co-authored by LLMs. This video reel includes screengrab videos small works of digital poetry and digital art by Scott Rettberg and David Jhave Johnston in 2022-2023, in JavaScript and Processing, that were produced as a result of this process of co-composition with AI. While these early experiments resulted from a comparatively long process of prompting and debugging, most of them could now be produced in 3-6 prompts to a contemporary LLM. AI coding augmentation will change the nature of digital art production in the future considerably.
David Jhave Johnston is a digital poet writing in emergent domains: A.I., 3D, VR, and code. Author-programmer of the multimedia human + A.I. writing art-project ReRites (Anteism Books, 2019), the theoretical-history Aesthetic Animism: Digital Poetry’s Ontological Implications (MIT Press, 2016), and many online multimedia literary explorations at www.glia.ca. He is currently employed as an Ai-narrative researcher at the UiB Centre for Digital Narrative from August 2023-26 on a team investigating Extending Digital Narrative.
