#1068: Declarative Narrative: New Interfaces for AI-Supported Writing

Generative artificial intelligence (GAI) is disrupting the cultural practice of writing while supporting the emergence of new writing practices. However, emergent writing practices, and the identities and relationships they support, are dependent on the affordances of commercial GAI infrastructure, leading to a concentration of power over how we read and write. In support of critical literacy pedagogy, we present three new interfaces for GAI-supported writing we have embedded into an existing web application for interactive storytelling. We report on how these interfaces were taken up in a ten-week high school writing club, and compare GAI-supported stories with a corpus of non-GAI stories. We identify several ways in which authors use GAI affordances for rhetorical effect, and find that GAI stories are similar in structure to non-GAI stories. The writing process of GAI stories differs from non-GAI stories, suggesting that GAI may compete with attention to code.