Interpretive Cultures: Resonance, randomness, and negotiated meaning for AI-assisted tarot divination
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| author | Prock, Matthew Epstein, Ziv Schroeder, Hope Smith, Amy Lee, Cassandra Goblot, Vana Jahanbakhsh, Farnaz |
| author_facet | Prock, Matthew Epstein, Ziv Schroeder, Hope Smith, Amy Lee, Cassandra Goblot, Vana Jahanbakhsh, Farnaz |
| contents | While generative AI tools are increasingly adopted for creative and analytical tasks, their role in interpretive practices, where meaning is subjective, plural, and non-causal, remains poorly understood. This paper examines AI-assisted tarot reading, a divinatory practice in which users pose a query, draw cards through a randomized process, and ask AI systems to interpret the resulting symbols. Drawing on interviews with tarot practitioners and Hartmut Rosa's Theory of Resonance, we investigate how users seek, negotiate, and evaluate resonant interpretations in a context where no causal relationship exists between the query and the data being interpreted. We identify distinct ways practitioners incorporate AI into their interpretive workflows, including using AI to navigate uncertainty and self-doubt, explore alternative perspectives, and streamline or extend existing divinatory practices. Based on these findings, we offer design recommendations for AI systems that support interpretive meaning-making without collapsing ambiguity or foreclosing user agency. |
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| spellingShingle | Interpretive Cultures: Resonance, randomness, and negotiated meaning for AI-assisted tarot divination Prock, Matthew Epstein, Ziv Schroeder, Hope Smith, Amy Lee, Cassandra Goblot, Vana Jahanbakhsh, Farnaz Human-Computer Interaction H.5.2 While generative AI tools are increasingly adopted for creative and analytical tasks, their role in interpretive practices, where meaning is subjective, plural, and non-causal, remains poorly understood. This paper examines AI-assisted tarot reading, a divinatory practice in which users pose a query, draw cards through a randomized process, and ask AI systems to interpret the resulting symbols. Drawing on interviews with tarot practitioners and Hartmut Rosa's Theory of Resonance, we investigate how users seek, negotiate, and evaluate resonant interpretations in a context where no causal relationship exists between the query and the data being interpreted. We identify distinct ways practitioners incorporate AI into their interpretive workflows, including using AI to navigate uncertainty and self-doubt, explore alternative perspectives, and streamline or extend existing divinatory practices. Based on these findings, we offer design recommendations for AI systems that support interpretive meaning-making without collapsing ambiguity or foreclosing user agency. |
| title | Interpretive Cultures: Resonance, randomness, and negotiated meaning for AI-assisted tarot divination |
| topic | Human-Computer Interaction H.5.2 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.11367 |