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Imagining Audiences and Positive Reframing with LLMs

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I was reflecting more on the topic of this post about the role of “imagined audiences” in sharing creative work. A key takeaway from that post was that there is value for me in being able to imagine what a constructive or positive response to the work I am sharing might look like. As I wrote previously: in many cases I will never know how readers or viewers consume my work, and so my imagination of their response is really all there is. Of course, there are many possible ways for me to imagine a reader’s reaction: from critical, negative, condesceneding to neutral, indifferent to positive, constructive, excited and so on. My imagination of these reactions affects my desire or willingness to share in some measure. Something that came to mind as I was considering this point more is that generative AI tools (like ChatGPT) could be useful for supporting this kind of positive imagination. For example, I experimented with prompting ChatGPT4 as follows: I am going to share with you a short bl

I was reflecting more on the topic of this post about the role of “imagined audiences” in sharing creative work. A key takeaway from that post was that there is value for me in being able to imagine what a constructive or positive response to the work I am sharing might look like. As I wrote previously: in many cases I will never know how readers or viewers consume my work, and so my imagination of their response is really all there is. Of course, there are many possible ways for me to imagine a reader’s reaction: from critical, negative, condesceneding to neutral, indifferent to positive, con

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