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Weaponized Storytelling: How AI Is Helping Researchers Sniff Out Disinformation Campaigns (The Conversation, 28 May 2025)
https://theconversation.com/weaponized-storytelling-how-ai-is-helping-researchers-sniff-out-disinf…

Weaponized storytelling: How AI is helping researchers sniff out disinformation campaigns
Disinformation campaigns are using AI to tell false but compelling stories. AI tools are also helping counter the campaigns by detecting incongruities in usernames, cultural references and timelines.

Designing an Adaptive Storytelling Platform to Promote Civic Education in Politically Polarized Learning Environments
Christopher M. Wegemer, Edward Halim, Jeff Burke
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00161

Designing an Adaptive Storytelling Platform to Promote Civic Education in Politically Polarized Learning Environments
Political polarization undermines democratic civic education by exacerbating identity-based resistance to opposing viewpoints. Emerging AI technologies offer new opportunities to advance interventions that reduce polarization and promote political open-mindedness. We examined novel design strategies that leverage adaptive and emotionally-responsive civic narratives that may sustain students' emotional engagement in stories, and in turn, promote perspective-taking toward members of political out…

Optimizing Storytelling, Improving Audience Retention, and Reducing Waste in the Entertainment Industry
Andrew Cornfeld, Ashley Miller, Mercedes Mora-Figueroa, Kurt Samuels, Anthony Palomba
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00076

Optimizing Storytelling, Improving Audience Retention, and Reducing Waste in the Entertainment Industry
Television networks face high financial risk when making programming decisions, often relying on limited historical data to forecast episodic viewership. This study introduces a machine learning framework that integrates natural language processing (NLP) features from over 25000 television episodes with traditional viewership data to enhance predictive accuracy. By extracting emotional tone, cognitive complexity, and narrative structure from episode dialogue, we evaluate forecasting performance…

I really disliked Star Wars E8 #TheLastJedi. I thought it wasn't just offensive to established canon of decades of #StarWars, it was obnoxiously derivative & just laden with bad storytelling.
I mean, when one's suspension of disbelief is repeatedly broken, that's a seriou…

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initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csSD_…

ReelWave: Multi-Agentic Movie Sound Generation through Multimodal LLM Conversation
Current audio generation conditioned by text or video focuses on aligning audio with text/video modalities. Despite excellent alignment results, these multimodal frameworks still cannot be directly applied to compelling movie storytelling involving multiple scenes, where "on-screen" sounds require temporally-aligned audio generation, while "off-screen" sounds contribute to appropriate environment sounds accompanied by background music when applicable. Inspired by professional movie production, …

How Broadway is embracing large-scale, high-resolution videos and projectors as an integrated narrative tool aided by AI, as some creatives worry about overuse (Michael Paulson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/theater/broadway-ai-s…

On Broadway, A.I. and High-Tech Storytelling Is Having a Moment
Videos and projections depicting an A.I.-generated actor, the digital memories of robots, a redwood forest and more: High-tech storytelling is having a moment.

"Ritual & Mayhem" | Free Bandcamp Codes
- read the story - get the download -
#Storytelling through #Music
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Stan Stewart - Ritual & Mayhem | Free Bandcamp Codes

Storytelling, music and spoken word for Palestine in Portsmouth | Morning Star https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/storytelling-music-and-spoken-word-palestine-portsmouth

Look what came in the post!
Transforming Development in Education: From Coloniality to Rethinking, Reframing and Reimagining Possibilities with my chapter:
'Why is Epistemic Humility Provocative? A reflexive story'.
Through storytelling, I address epistemic humility as the explicit acknowledgement of the limits of knowledge and raise questions of 'just survival' and 'positionalities at play'.
Video:

ViSTA: Visual Storytelling using Multi-modal Adapters for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
Sibo Dong, Ismail Shaheen, Maggie Shen, Rupayan Mallick, Sarah Adel Bargal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12198

ViSTA: Visual Storytelling using Multi-modal Adapters for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
Text-to-image diffusion models have achieved remarkable success, yet generating coherent image sequences for visual storytelling remains challenging. A key challenge is effectively leveraging all previous text-image pairs, referred to as history text-image pairs, which provide contextual information for maintaining consistency across frames. Existing auto-regressive methods condition on all past image-text pairs but require extensive training, while training-free subject-specific approaches ens…

FairyGen: Storied Cartoon Video from a Single Child-Drawn Character
Jiayi Zheng, Xiaodong Cun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21272 https://

FairyGen: Storied Cartoon Video from a Single Child-Drawn Character
We propose FairyGen, an automatic system for generating story-driven cartoon videos from a single child's drawing, while faithfully preserving its unique artistic style. Unlike previous storytelling methods that primarily focus on character consistency and basic motion, FairyGen explicitly disentangles character modeling from stylized background generation and incorporates cinematic shot design to support expressive and coherent storytelling. Given a single character sketch, we first employ an …

Really stunning
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DKrnJ3ZIVpy/?igsh=MTFla3ZkOTltOHY0bQ==

Art Daily Dose on Instagram: "Tanya Gomelskaya is a versatile artist who blends sculpture and painting to create impactful pieces that capture the depth of human experience. Her work delves into themes of selfhood, emotion, and storytelling, inviting audiences to engage with her art in a meaningful way. Artist: @tanya #art #painting #sculpture #3D"
75K likes, 843 comments - art_dailydose on June 9, 2025: "Tanya Gomelskaya is a versatile artist who blends sculpture and painting to create impactful pieces that capture the depth of human experience. Her work delves into themes of selfhood, emotion, and storytelling, inviting audiences to engage with her art in a meaningful way. Artist: @tanya #art #painting #sculpture #3D".

Sonic Archaeology – The Chaining of Cerberus
#ambient

I have released LLama2.c64 - an LLM running on a C64 with 2MB REU. It runs the Llama2 LLM architecture, using the tokenizer and weights from the Tinystories 260K model.
It's a storytelling model that tries its best to spin your prompt into a story, as if told by a kindergarten child. It will generate one output token about every 8 minutes.
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Das ist doch was fürs #FediLZ #BlueLZ
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Medienzentrum Frankfurt (@mzffm@social.medienzentrum.rocks)
Angehängt: 1 Bild In Kürze veröffentlichen wir ein Materialpaket zum Thema Coding und Robotik. Das Paket richtet sich an Lehrkräfte der 3.-6. Klassen, also an alle Grundschulen und Sekundarstufen mit Primarstufe. Der kleine Roboter Ada ist mit seinem Raumschiff abgestürzt und lädt Ihre Lerngruppe ein, gemeinsam das Abenteuer zu bestehen, das Schiff wieder flott zu machen. Im Rahmen dieser Hintergrundgeschichte (Storytelling) lernen die Schüler*innen spielerisch die Welt des Codings und…

Vice Media hires ex-NBCUniversal executive Adam Stotsky as CEO, aiming to build up its studio and advertising arms with a focus on "provocative storytelling" (Isabella Simonetti/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/m…

AniMaker: Automated Multi-Agent Animated Storytelling with MCTS-Driven Clip Generation
Haoyuan Shi, Yunxin Li, Xinyu Chen, Longyue Wang, Baotian Hu, Min Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10540

AniMaker: Automated Multi-Agent Animated Storytelling with MCTS-Driven Clip Generation
Despite rapid advancements in video generation models, generating coherent storytelling videos that span multiple scenes and characters remains challenging. Current methods often rigidly convert pre-generated keyframes into fixed-length clips, resulting in disjointed narratives and pacing issues. Furthermore, the inherent instability of video generation models means that even a single low-quality clip can significantly degrade the entire output animation's logical coherence and visual continuit…

Andor 2:10 was brilliant storytelling.
#starwars

Our Coding Adventure: Using LLMs to Personalise the Narrative of a Tangible Programming Robot for Preschoolers
Martin Ruskov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20982

Our Coding Adventure: Using LLMs to Personalise the Narrative of a Tangible Programming Robot for Preschoolers
Finding balanced ways to employ Large Language Models (LLMs) in education is a challenge due to inherent risks of poor understanding of the technology and of a susceptible audience. This is particularly so with younger children, who are known to have difficulties with pervasive screen time. Working with a tangible programming robot called Cubetto, we propose an approach to benefit from the capabilities of LLMs by employing such models in the preparation of personalised storytelling, necessary f…

5 Days, 5 Stories: Using Technology to Promote Empathy in the Workplace
Russell Beale, Eugenia Sergueeva
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19495 https://

5 Days, 5 Stories: Using Technology to Promote Empathy in the Workplace
Empathy is widely recognized as a vital attribute for effective collaboration and communication in the workplace, yet developing empathic skills and fostering it among colleagues remains a challenge. This study explores the potential of a collaborative digital storytelling platform - In Your Shoes - designed to promote empathic listening and interpersonal understanding through the structured exchange of personal narratives. A one-week intervention was conducted with employees from multiple orga…

How Vox built a huge YouTube presence, becoming an incubator that invented its own visual language, as ex-staffers like Johnny Harris grow their own channels (Simon Owens/The Long Story with Simon Owens)
https://thelongstory.substack.com/p/why-the-best-jour…

Why the best journalists on YouTube are all former Vox employees
The company became a skunk works incubator that invented its own language of visual storytelling.

This framing of long COVID is uh chilling. Not masking in public sure seems dumb.
https://thesicktimes.org/2025/05/06/long-covid-mode-seeing-the-crisis-through-games/