Human-AI Co-creation Practice to Reconfigure the Cultural Emotion : Han

Abstract

Due to the characteristics of artificial intelligence, we believe the interaction process between AI and its creator can facilitate generating inspiration and creativity. Thus, we experimented in the most humanistic environment to explore whether it is possible for machines to intervene in the creation of human-like emotions, formed through culture and history. We also explored how artificial intelligence could broaden the creator's scope of creative thinking and how useful it is for artistic creation. Hence, we set the theme of 'Han' which is a unique emotion that exists only in Korea. 'Han' is an extremely abstract and empirical emotion that originates from Korean history. In this study, we have created ethnic and cultural values through the co-creation process of AI and humans. Using a song created from the results of the above process, we surveyed 128 people and conducted in-depth interviews [4, 10] with four experts and artists to verify that this approach is effective for generating content that carries cultural values. Through this study, we came to two conclusions. First, with the Human-AI co-creation process, it is possible to make a cultural creation that people from the specific culture can actually sympathize with. Second, through this process, the composer can work faster and more effectively as well as getting more inspiration from sample tunes created by the AI. Further study will be conducted to determine whether this result is also valid in other general cases and to assure that this process can help artists to create a creation that holds cultural values. © 2022 Owner/Author.