Purpose

Artificial intelligence (AI) has become increasingly important and influential in reading and writing. The influx of social media digital spaces, like TikTok, has also shifted the ways multimodal composition takes place alongside AI. This study aims to argue that within spaces like TikTok, human composers must attend to the ways they write for, with and against the AI-powered algorithm.

Design/methodology/approach

Data collection was drawn from a larger study on #BookTok (the TikTok subcommunity for readers) that included semi-structured interviews including watching and reflecting on a TikTok they created. The authors grounded this study in critical posthumanist literacies to analyze and open code five #BookTok content creators’ interview transcripts. Using axial coding, authors collaboratively determined three overarching and entangled themes: writing for, with and against.

Findings

Findings highlight the nuanced ways #BookTokers consider the AI algorithm in their compositional choices, namely, in the ways how they want to disseminate their videos to a larger audience or more niche-focused community. Throughout the interviews, participants revealed how the AI algorithm was situated differently as both audience member, co-author and censor.

Originality/value

This study is grounded in critical posthumanist literacies and explores composition as a joint accomplishment between humans and machines. The authors argued that it is necessary to expand our human-centered notions of what it means to write for an audience, to co-author and to resist censorship or gatekeeping.

中文翻译：

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支持、支持和反对算法的写作：TikTokers 与人工智能作为观众、合著者和审查者的关系

目的

人工智能（AI）在阅读和写作中变得越来越重要和具有影响力。 TikTok 等社交媒体数字空间的涌入也改变了多模式组合与人工智能一起发生的方式。这项研究旨在论证，在 TikTok 这样的空间中，人类作曲家必须注意他们支持、使用和反对人工智能算法的写作方式。

设计/方法论/途径

数据收集来自 #BookTok（TikTok 读者子社区）上的一项更大规模的研究，其中包括半结构化访谈，包括观看和反思他们创建的 TikTok。作者以批判性的后人类主义文学为基础，分析并开放了五份 #BookTok 内容创作者的采访记录。使用轴向编码，作者共同确定了三个首要且相互纠缠的主题：支持、支持和反对。

发现

调查结果强调了 #BookTokers 在他们的构图选择中考虑人工智能算法的微妙方式，即他们希望如何向更多观众或更关注利基社区传播视频的方式。在整个采访过程中，参与者揭示了人工智能算法作为观众、合著者和审查者的不同定位。

原创性/价值

这项研究以批判性的后人类主义文学为基础，探索作曲作为人类和机器之间的共同成就。作者认为，有必要扩展我们以人为中心的观念，即为读者写作、共同创作以及抵制审查或把关意味着什么。