Artificial Intelligence and Media Geography: From the Personal to the Nonhuman
摘要
In this chapter, I demonstrate how artificial intelligence (AI) should be a key component of media geography research moving forward. The rise of artificial intelligence in academic research has been rapid and all-encompassing and impacts research, teaching, and administration. Here, I focus on one aspect of artificial intelligence in media geography: the role of chatbot AI in academic research. I present the essay “A Multimodal Visual Culture in Human Geography,” which I created using ChatGPT, drawing on my previous works in media geography. I first discuss AI in geography and media before moving to my interactions with ChatGPT to create an essay. I address my feelings of posthumanism in the process, the ethics of essays created by AI, and how my interactions with ChatGPT reminded me of the digital transition in the field of cartography in the 1990s. I am not advocating for the use of ChatGPT to create essays; rather, I explore the generative interactions of human/nonhuman and argue that this type of interaction will soon be widespread in academia and academic publications. I also discuss what to look for in an AI-co-created article and how ChatGPT perceives its role in the creation of this essay.