Sharing Experiences: Collaborating with AI to Produce Science Communication Content

Chi-Tin Shih^1*

¹Department of Applied Physics, Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan

* Presenter:Chi-Tin Shih, email:ctshih@thu.edu.tw

The rise of short-form content on social networks, like TikTok and YouTube Shorts, has transformed science communication. While these formats make science more accessible and engaging through brief, entertaining videos, they also encourage a preference for quick, simplified knowledge. However, this format shapes user's taste for knowledge, making it difficult to concentrate for a long time and to take longer or more complex content. In addition, low barriers to content creation have spread misinformation, undermining public understanding of science. Thus science communication suffers before it benefits with the rise of short contents because good science communication has the responsibility of fact-checking, and the use of texts and images must confirm the scope of authorization and cite the source properly. In this presentation, I will share my experience in science communication with the advent of generative AI tools like Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and ChatGPT. We show that human-AI collaboration can enhance science communication by quickly creating accurate and engaging content, effectively countering misinformation and promoting scientific literacy.

Keywords: short-form content, science communication, generative AI tools, human-AI collaboration