AI Driven Worlds - Online Masterclass

Overview

This masterclass explores how artificial intelligence is reshaping narratives, not just as a tool but as a creative force capable of co-authoring, adapting, and generating entire fictional worlds. Participants will engage with AI tools to create immersive, interactive, and adaptive storytelling experiences.

Interactive workshop format

This masterclass is designed as an interactive workshop where participants will

• Experiment with AI tools for storytelling and world-building
• Explore AI-driven creative prompts
• Co-create short AI-generated narratives in an AI StoryLab environment for iterative experiments

🌟 Event Details 🌟

📅 Dates:

Monday, 12th May 2025 (5:00 PM UK Time)

Wednesday, 14th May 2025 (5:00 PM UK Time)

💬 Q&A Day:

Tuesday, 13th May 2025 (All-day support for questions and discussions)

🎯 Audience 🎯

✍️ Writers & Digital Creators: Enhance narratives with AI storytelling tools.
🎮 Game Developers & Interactive Fiction Creators: AI-driven world-building, dynamic characters & interactive stories.
🎓 Educators, Students & Researchers: Explore AI’s impact on narrative structures & creative processes.
🤖 AI Enthusiasts & Tech Innovators: Discover AI’s evolving role in creative industries.

About the instructor

Dr Tatia Codreanu is an expert in Applied Linguistics, specializing in AI-driven communication and strategic intelligence. Her research integrates AI ethics, adaptive intelligence, and digital transformation to enhance human-AI collaboration. She is actively collaborating with startups to shape innovative AI solutions and strategies.

Masterclass Structure

Note: The specific tools used during the sessions may vary as the AI landscape continues to evolve.

1. The Rise of AI as storyteller

📌 Topics

• How AI generates compelling narratives
• The role of large language models and creative AI in shaping stories
• AI’s ability to adapt to audience preferences and interactivity

🔹 AI tools

• GPT-4, Claude, Gemini 1.5 (AI-generated storytelling)
• Sudowrite (AI-powered creative writing)
• InferKit – AI text generation
• Dramatron (Google DeepMind) AI-assisted screenwriting (https://colab.research.google.com/github/deepmind/dramatron/blob/main/colab/dramatron.ipynb#scrollTo=smVKjDIBg5l-)
• https://www.hyperwriteai.com/

🔹 Activity

• Experiment with AI-generated storytelling using AI tools.

2. Building AI-driven worlds

📌 Topics

• How AI crafts expansive, dynamic worlds (AI’s potential to create immersive, adaptive narratives in virtual worlds)
• AI in games, interactive fiction, and beyond
• The role of AI in world-building for film and digital experiences

🔹 AI tools

• Scenario.gg, AI-generated game assets and world-building elements https://app.scenario.com/login
• Promethean AI, AI-driven world creation for digital and gaming environments, https://www.prometheanai.com/
• Artbreeder, AI-assisted character and world visual generation
• Stable Diffusion, AI-generated concept art for world-building
• Fable AI (Showrunner) – AI-driven animated storytelling

🔹 Activity

• Develop an interactive AI-generated world using AI tools

3. Human + AI Collaboration

📌 Topics

• AI as a co-writer: Practical tools for authors and creators
• Bias, authenticity, and AI-generated content
• Creative augmentation vs. creative automation

🔹 AI tools

• Notion AI, Assists with brainstorming and structuring ideas
• ChatGPT Custom GPTs, fine-tune AI to match specific writing styles
• NovelAI or Jasper, AI-generated story drafts and editing
• Fictionary, AI-driven story structuring and editing
• Perspective API (Google Jigsaw), bias detection in AI text

🔹 Activity

• Compare human-written vs. AI-generated storytelling

4. AI-Generated visuals & adaptive storytelling

📌 Topics

• AI-generated images and animations
• Enhancing immersion through AI visuals

🔹 AI tools

• Deep Dream Generator, AI-powered surreal storytelling visuals
• Pictory.ai. AI-driven video editing
• Lumen5, AI-powered storytelling video creation
• ElevenLabs, AI-generated voices for narration
• Story Reviewer (Hyperwrite AI), AI-powered story analysis and feedback
• Character Generator (Toolsaday), AI-generated character profiles, including appearance, traits, and backstory
• Plot Twist Generator (Wyzowl), AI-generated unexpected plot twists
• RunwayML, AI-powered video creation for storytelling
• Canva AI, AI-assisted visual storytelling elements
• Kling AI

🔹 Activity

• Convert an AI-generated short story into a video using AI tools.
• Use Story Reviewer to refine the narrative.
• Generate an AI-driven character profile using Character Generator and introduce a plot twist with Plot Twist Generator.