"Painting in the style of Manet; bee with four stripes flying along California coastline" prompt. Adobe Firefly, Adobe, 16 Aug. 2024, https://firefly.adobe.com/. | CC0 1.0.
Here, we see a series of four images created using AI Firefly (information below). These images visual depict a bee (with four stripes) flying away from her hive early in the morning (panel one) on a California coast line to a field of wildflowers (panel two). There, she collects pollen from a flower (panel three) before flying back toward the hive at sunset (panel four).
This counts as digital storytelling both because the story was generated using digital tools but also because it is being conveyed to you--as the reader--in a digital environment. While either would make this "digital storytelling," the latter is arguably more important.
More common forms of digital storytelling include providing text in a digital interface; including static or interactive images; video or audio; and more. Listed below are a few tools to play with as well as links out to a growing handful of example projects.
Generative AI is a process by which new content--images, text, audio, video, etc.--is generated by an Artificial Intelligence (AI). For the most part, the outputs of generative AI do not receive copyright protection under U.S. law. For more information, check out this pdf from the U.S. Copyright Office.
Partly because you cannot usually own material you generate using an AI, you still must cite to where you got it from. Chicago Style (their FAQ) and MLA (MLA style guide) have both released statements on how to cite to that information.
