Generative Multimodal Artificial Intelligence in the Humanities

An Introduction

Abstract

The paper offers an introduction to the topic of multimodal generative artificial intelligence, describing the nature and characteristics of multimodal AI systems. It then focuses on two aspects of their use that could be of special interest, especially in the field of digital humanities: (a) accessibility, involving the automatic generation of highly personalized alternative descriptions based on communicative codes different from those of the primary content, and (b) chrono- and georeferencing, enabling the incorporation of both geographical and chronological dimensions within a multimodal model.