Personal narrative and stream of consciousness: an AI approach
Journal of Positive Psychology September 14, 2023 Abigail P. Blyler, M. Seligman
Combining artificial intelligence with stream-of-consciousness can make personal narratives explicit. Twenty-six adults each provided 50 stream-of-consciousness thoughts, which ChatGPT-4 used along with demographics and prompts to generate a personal narrative. Participants rated these AI-generated narratives as highly accurate, surprising, and insightful. Twenty-five of 26 participants rated the narratives as 'Completely Accurate' or 'Mostly Accurate', 19 found them 'Very Surprising' or 'Somewhat Surprising', and 19 learned something new about themselves. This suggests AI can support self-discovery in therapy and coaching.