The Writing Seminar: Considering Audience

Creative Writing is a form of communication that is intended to have multiple meanings and interpretations, but it is still a form of communication. Someone is on the other end receiving these literary transmissions. "Considering audience" does not have to mean pandering to the lowest common denominator. It can mean conceptualizing your ideal reader, or it can mean speaking to your future self, or to posterity. It can mean defining genre, or defying it. 

Before the advent of ChatGPT and other LLMs, every year in Bristol, England, they used to hold a Turing test, using computer monitors to communicate, where each user would have to guess whether a human or AI was typing on the other end, and they would give out an award to the engineer whose AI convinced the most people that it was human. In addition, they would give out a "Most Human Human" award to the human who convinced the most fellow humans that they were human too. In this class, explore what it means to be "the Most Human Human," using imagination and lived experience to create literary art that resonates with other humans-- something that AI still cannot do.