Beyond the Prompt: Community-Oriented Futures for Creative GenAI

The recent impact of generative AI on how we create art together demands interdisciplinary perspectives to inform HCI and design research. To spark interdisciplinary dialogue, we created three speculative designs exploring: What if--instead of the current paradigm of individualized prompting--GenAI afforded communal creative processes and artifacts? Designs include an alternative model of sustainable AI art-making driven by plant growth, wall art reflecting AI interpretations of personal data, and a community mural created through multi-modal human-AI collaboration. We held workshops with 18 participants with interdisciplinary backgrounds who responded to designs and co-created AI futures using a novel toolkit. Thematic analysis of participant discussions surfaced opportunities and concerns related to time expression, representation, data privacy, resource distribution, and ownership. This paper contributes speculative designs of creative AI futures, a novel toolkit for eliciting interdisciplinary discussions on speculative designs, and key tensions for the HCI and design communities to consider for the future of community-oriented creative GenAI.