HOW TO WRITE, an AI Guide in Four Steps

The project was born in the first months of my daughter’s life, when time seemed to fragment into repetitive cycles. During that period, I began to reflect on how my creativity often stems from the recovery and reworking of others’ works. This process, so similar to the imitation of meaning patterns performed by LLM artificial intelligences, led me to imagine a future in which creativity itself becomes a limited resource, depleted like natural deposits.

In this scenario, storytelling is no longer an act of pure invention but a meticulous process of reuse and reworking. One draws from the archives of the past, from fragments of forgotten stories, because originality, as we have always understood it, has become an unattainable luxury.

The text itself reflects this fragmentation: some parts are mine, while others come from my father’s poems, dismantled and reassembled into a mosaic that explores creation as transformation rather than invention.

Images and music follow the same logic: heterogeneous fragments collected online were reorganized, as a LLM uses its data set, to evoke emotions and give life to something new. In the film, creation becomes a process of construction, not inspiration.

— Nicola Eddy