While sensitivities toward ecologies and more-than-human design and research have become visible in the HCI, design, and humanities [1–3, 7–11], inquiries from these perspectives are not common in the specific case of AI Arts [6]. This is a challenge, as AI arts is often approached from a technological post-humanist perspectives, mixed with values of techno-positivism in an attempt to find newways of expression and creativity1 or ways of utilizing AI for creative work – and overlooking feminist care over environment and more-than-human ecologies. In this position paper, I explore Generative AI as a tool for reflecting on such challenges that relate to ’doing research in AI arts’ from a first-person perspective. In order to explore alternative ways of knowledge-making, I use the method of storying speculative conversations with ChatGPTs “More-than-Human Alter Ego” gAIa. Consequently, the results of this process surfaced that using Generative-AI for more-than-human storying can work as a method for first-person reflection of the challenges, experiences, and situated context of doing design research work from a first-person lense.
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