Evaluation of Texts Produced by Artificial Intelligence in Terms of Folklore

Abstract

Experience accumulation of mankind gained from life has preserved its existence by being transferred to the next generations for centuries. The geographies, climates, environmental conditions, technologies, economies and values of the communities in the processes they live in have formed their culture. All of the practices that preserve their relation with the past of the society in which they were created in the process of transferring the experience and accumulation from ancient times to new generations with the bond of tradition and shaped without losing their dynamism according to the needs of the time are within the scope of folklore researchers. Human communities have created and transferred their cultures in various cultural environments, especially in the oral culture environment. In the center of all these creation and transmission processes, people themselves have taken place. Mankind, which has produced various technologies throughout history, has developed electronic or digital technology as well as writing. The technology development has also played an active role in the creation and transmission of culture by human beings. Artificial intelligence technology developed by humanity is one of the most important technological developments of recent times and has started to show itself in almost every fields of life. Artificial intelligence has also been used in creating narrative texts. This brought up the problem of how the narratives created by artificial intelligence should be perceived or evaluated in what context. In this study, in the context of this problem, the situation of the texts within the scope of the principles of the folklore nature of the texts presented by the artificial intelligence, which was designed through algorithms, influenced by the technological developments, and the co-creation texts of the community, is discussed. Evaluations have been made on the differences of the texts from folklore texts. It has been seen that the produced texts have limitations in terms of context, depth and emotion transfer.