PAUSE: Editable Strategy Artifacts for Long-Form Cultural Story Adaptation

Generative AI systems currently mediate cultural adaptation with hidden decision-making processes. A new intervention, PAUSE (Pause-And-Update Strategy Editing), proposes exposing and allowing human editing of adaptation strategies as structured artifacts. This approach enables greater human control over cultural decisions in long-form story adaptation, with initial tests showing human judges consistently preferring outputs generated with edited strategies over control versions.

This research addresses a critical limitation in generative AI for cultural adaptation, moving towards more transparent and controllable AI-driven creative processes. The ability to inspect and edit AI's strategic decisions offers a pathway for organizations to maintain brand integrity, cultural sensitivity, and creative direction in content generation, which is crucial for global market engagement and avoiding potential misinterpretations or controversies.

Generative AI systems for cultural adaptation often embed cultural decisions within prompts, transient model plans, or final prose, limiting human oversight.

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