Creativity Support in AI Co-creative Tools: Current Research, Challenges and Opportunities

Artificial Intelligence technology-driven Creativity Support Tools (AI-CSTs) provide specific field capability support for human creative activities. In this paper, we compare and analyze the current situation and trend of AI-CSTs design space in four aspects: creative stage, support form, support technology, and role diversity. Through a coding study and comparative analysis of 50 AI-CSTs cases, we discuss the impact of AI-CSTs on traditional workflows, the boundaries of AI-CSTs as co-creators, and how to treat AI errors, which provides insights for future AI-CSTs design. We summarize the collaboration framework in AI-CSTs. Finally, this paper also studies the information technology requirements and challenges of AI-CSTs research, which provides a new perspective to understanding the landscape of AI-CSTs.