Design Fiction x AI
About Ploy Pruekcharoen
Story 03
Theme: AI in Industries
When: 2040
Where: NYC, Brooklyn
Why:
- Gender Bias in creative fields in 2023, how would it exist in 2040?
- What markets would be created based on the prominence of AI?
- Assuming that AI would free up the menial tasks as well what types of people would shift into creative AI work?
- What types of oversaturation might occur with the shift into more creative AI work?
Narrative:
It’s been 17 years since the introduction of ChatGPT. In NYC, a former mecca for writers and authors, a woman and her husband live in a high-rise that overlooks a modern graveyard where the dead hang in biodegradable moss pods. The couple both had thriving careers as TV writers until AI image creators got so powerful that they were essentially obsolete. They returned to school and got certificates in AI image generation with a specialization in Ethics and began working in the interactive film industry where they work with 3D artists to create interactive scenarios that allow people to go through SIMs. They are facing some trouble when it comes to the increased focus on arts education. Noticing that communication with AI tools would become a huge part of the job market going forward they have focused more time on creative writing education, allowing students to parse texts and rhetoric to be able to talk and converse with the AI. The result is a thriving class of younger creatives who are releasing and continuously making content. This threatens our MC since they grew up in a world that told them they had to be trained to do that kind of work. They noticed this first with their 12-year-old child who has already released an award-winning collection of holographic art that people can buy in their homes. On the larger points, people are angry that they cannot own work outright because artists’ rights have become a thing too. There is dissent brewing by some that consider an AI that can create realistic art a person and claim that it should be the only one compensation while others like our main character and her husband believe that their input and tutelage is what makes the AI able to function and create the art that is being sold.