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Bonsai: Cultivating Author Intent in LLM-Based Interactive Digital Narratives

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C cultivation is proposed : a design metaphor in which LLM-generated branches are stored as persistent material for authors to shape through iterative curation, and reflects on how this metaphor reframes human-AI creative collaboration: authors become garden-ers, tending ever-growing branches rather than constraining ephemeral outputs.

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