Amidst the emergence of powerful intelligent technologies such as LLMs and text-to-image AIs that promise to enhance creative processes, designers face the challenges of remaining empowered and creative while working with these foreign digital partners. While generative AIs offer versatile, informative, and occasionally poetic outcomes, their lack of embodied knowledge presents an even greater challenge to designers in gaining fruitful outcomes, such as in the field of Digital Craftsmanship. In this project, three designers embarked on a three-month experimental journey with an intention to co-create with Google's LLM as a potential intelligent partner to investigate how it will influence the designers' creativity. We found that a power dynamic of agencies exists between the LLM and the designer, in which the designer can easily lose their creative agency. Regaining the designer's creative agency involves introspection into their own creative process, a structural understanding of the specific emerging technology involved, and deliberate adjustments to the dynamics of the human-technology relationship. We propose paying attention to the designer's inner world and parties of agencies when engaging with emerging intelligent technologies through three aspects: the sensitivity towards a creative process as cognitive activities; the active investigation into specific technology's capability; and the adjustment towards an appropriate working relationship between the designer and the emerging technology.

翻译：随着LLM和文本到图像AI等强大智能技术的兴起，这些技术有望增强创作过程，设计师在与这些陌生的数字伙伴合作时面临着保持能动性和创造力的挑战。虽然生成式AI能够产生多样、信息丰富且偶尔富有诗意的结果，但其缺乏具身知识对设计师获得富有成效的成果构成了更大挑战，例如在数字工艺领域。在本项目中，三位设计师开启了一段为期三个月的实验性探索，意图与Google的LLM作为潜在的智能伙伴进行共同创造，以研究它将如何影响设计师的创造力。我们发现，LLM与设计师之间存在着一种能动性的权力动态，在这种动态中，设计师容易丧失其创作能动性。重获设计师的创作能动性需要对其自身创作过程进行内省、对所涉特定新兴技术有结构性理解，并对人机关系的动态进行有意识的调整。我们建议，在接触新兴智能技术时，应从三个方面关注设计师的内心世界和能动性各方：对作为认知活动的创作过程的敏感性；对特定技术能力的主动探究；以及对设计师与新兴技术之间适当工作关系的调整。