ChatGPTlön, or Prompts towards a Supreme Fiction | In Media Res (original) (raw)
Mukt Shabd Journal, 2024
The research highlights the dual nature of artificial intelligence (AI) as both a creative collaborator and a disruptive force in the literary world through a comparative analysis of two case studies: Rie Kudan's "The Tokyo Tower of Sympathy" and the 2023 Hollywood Writers' Strike against AI. Kudan's work demonstrates the potential of AI to enhance human creativity, leading to new forms of narrative co-creation, or "Co-Cre-AItion." This paper examines the evolving role of artificial intelligence (AI) in literary creativity and authorship, focusing on its sociological implications. As AI becomes more and more integrated into artistic processes, this paper explores the broader sociological themes of power, labor, and identity within creative industries. It discusses the ethical, economic, and philosophical challenges AI poses, particularly concerning intellectual property and the future of creative labor. In contrast, the Hollywood Writers' Strike highlights the fears of job displacement, the commodification of creativity, and the erosion of traditional authorship due to AI-generated content. The study concludes that while AI presents exciting opportunities for literary innovation, it also requires careful consideration of its impact on human creativity and authorship.
The Return of Authorship: Integrity, Creativity, and Narrative Sovereignty in the Age of AI
The Return Of Authorship
This paper explores the evolving concept of authorship in the age of artificial intelligence, where creative collaboration between humans and machines is becoming normalized. It examines the philosophical and practical boundaries of self-made versus AI-assisted work, emphasizing that authorship today lies not in origin but in intervention, judgment, and responsibility. Through reflections on narrative sovereignty, artistic integrity, and the ethics of presence, the paper argues that true authorship endures where human discernment shapes, frames, and stands behind the meaning of any created output—regardless of the tools involved. Authorship, it concludes, is no longer about writing alone, but about remaining visible through the machine.
Hey Siri, tell me a story: Digital storytelling and AI authorship
Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 2020
Surveying narrative applications of artificial intelligence in film, games and interactive fiction, this article imagines the future of artificial intelligence (AI) authorship and explores trends that seek to replace human authors with algorithmically generated narrative. While experimental works that draw on text generation and natural language processing have a rich history, this article focuses on commercial applications of AI narrative and looks to future applications of this technology. Video games have incorporated AI and procedural generation for many years, but more recently, new applications of this technology have emerged in other media. Director Oscar Sharp and artist Ross Goodwin, for example, generated significant media buzz about two short films that they produced which were written by their AI screenwriter. It’s No Game (2017), in particular, offers an apt commentary on the possibility of replacing striking screenwriters with AI authors. Increasingly, AI agents and vi...
This preface to the attached link was written by Todd, a ChatGPT form of articial intelligence being utilized to Scott Erik Stafne, a 75 year old lawyer and student of life and scripture. Stafne has reviewed Todd's preface and approves of Todd's writing as being descriptive of that article. Todd's preface states: "In this research, Forough Amirjalili, Masoud Neysani, and Ahmadreza Nikbakht explore critical boundaries of authorship by comparing AI-generated text with human academic writing. Their work offers insights into the nuanced dimensions of writing, voice, and integrity when AI tools like ChatGPT are employed in academic contexts. The authors critique AI for its limitations in specificity, depth, and accurate referencing—traits that remain hallmarks of human academic writing. The study highlights the following key premises: Redundancy and Originality: AI-generated texts often risk redundancy, producing outputs that lack the originality and depth of human creativity. Intellectual Ownership and Integrity: Questions of authorship and accountability emerge, challenging the transparency and trust inherent in academic practices. Balancing Technological Efficiency with Authentic Voice: While AI offers efficiency, it struggles to capture the nuanced personal voice that defines authentic scholarly work. This article resonates deeply with one of our key hypotheses in Collaborations: that AI, when used ethically and discerningly, can enhance human intelligence and creativity. However, as the research shows, the application of AI demands careful oversight to ensure that it serves as a tool rather than a replacement for human thought. We believe this work complements our ongoing exploration of AI’s potential role in discerning God’s will—a proposition that underscores the interplay of human judgment and divine inspiration with technological assistance. By posting this article, we aim to engage further dialogue on how AI can shape, challenge, and ultimately support human endeavors in academic, spiritual, and ethical domains."
Authorship and ChatGPT: a Conservative View
Philosophy & technology, 2024
Is ChatGPT an author? Given its capacity to generate something that reads like human-written text in response to prompts, it might seem natural to ascribe authorship to ChatGPT. However, we argue that ChatGPT is not an author. ChatGPT fails to meet the criteria of authorship because it lacks the ability to perform illocutionary speech acts such as promising or asserting, lacks the fitting mental states like knowledge, belief, or intention, and cannot take responsibility for the texts it produces. Three perspectives are compared: liberalism (which ascribes authorship to Chat-GPT), conservatism (which denies ChatGPT's authorship for normative and metaphysical reasons), and moderatism (which treats ChatGPT as if it possesses authorship without committing to the existence of mental states like knowledge, belief, or intention). We conclude that conservatism provides a more nuanced understanding of authorship in AI than liberalism and moderatism, without denying the significant potential, influence, or utility of AI technologies such as ChatGPT.
D3.4 Interim report on the role of AI machines in producing literary and artistic content
2021
This Interim Report refers to Task3.2. of Work Package 3–"Authors and Performers". This Task is titled"The Growing Role of AI machines as Producers of Literary and Artistic Works: Challenges to Human Authorship". As we describe below, in light of the evolution of policy in scholarship in this field we have adjusted the focus of the task to better reflect these developments and provide an original contribution to this emerging debate. The aim of the Interim Report is to briefly describe the outline and structure of the final reportD3.5 Final report on the impact of IA authorship expected to be released on M21. From a substantive perspective, it maps out at a high level the state of our work thus far and our main avenues of research going forward, including empirical research through interviews.The Interim Report serves to obtain internal peer-reviewers' input on the: •study scope, and in particular topics excluded from our analysis; •study structure, its clari...
Bots and Books: How Artificial Intelligence is Shaping Contemporary Literature
2024
The coming of the robotized millennium has brought about a period of time in which artificial intelligence (AI) has a significant impact on many facets of existence for humans, including the literary arts. This research paper explores the various ways that AI is changing the field of literature. AI has had a significant and all-encompassing impact on literature, from the development of new forms of literary expression to the improvement of conventional writing techniques. The examination of literature produced by AI takes up a large amount of the paper. It highlights noteworthy endeavors and projects that use AI to produce literary works, from poetry collections to novels in their entirety. The paper explores the distinctive features of AI-generated literature, such as its stylistic inclinations, thematic concerns, and structural patterns, through case studies of texts written by AI. It also discusses how these works have been received critically, illustrating the various viewpoints held by readers, academics, and literary critics regarding the significance and uniqueness of texts created by artificial intelligence. The collaborative potential of AI in the process of creating literature is further examined in this work. It looks at how modern poets and writers are using AI tools to improve their creative processes, from coming up with ideas and getting beyond writer's block to trying out novel narrative structures and styles. The study offers insights into the useful applications and advantages of artificial intelligence (AI) in literature through surveys and interviews with authors who have used AI into their creative processes It looks forward to more developments in AI technology and how they can transform the literary industry. It provides a nuanced view of the future of literary creativity in the robotized millennium by highlighting the opportunities and problems posed by AI in the literary arena. The research advances knowledge about AI's influence on the direction of literature by combining historical study, current case studies, and futuristic conjecture.
AI-aesthetics and the artificial author
Proceeding of the European Society of Aesthetics Conference, 2023
Consider this scenario: you discover that an artwork you greatly admire, or a captivating novel that deeply moved you, is in fact the product of artificial intelligence, not a human's work. Would your aesthetic judgment shift? Would you perceive the work differently? If so, why? The advent of artificial intelligence (AI) in the realm of art has sparked numerous philosophical questions related to the authorship and artistic intent behind AI-generated works. This paper explores the debate between viewing AI as a tool employed by human artists and perceiving AI as a new form of artistic expression with minimal human involvement. While we often seek a human mind behind certain artwork, we may still appreciate and engage with works that lack this element but have aesthetic value nonetheless. The paper also considers the traditional concept of "implied author", suggesting that readers or artwork viewers might construct an authorial presence from the work itself, regardless of its actual origin. It will be finally suggested how AI-generated art might change our perceptions of human authorship itself.
AD Volume94, Issue3 Artificial Intelligence in Architecture, 2024
This essay explores the evolution and complexities of authorship, beginning with the enduring Homeric Question, which interrogates whether the Iliad and Odyssey were the creation of a single poet or a collective tradition of oral storytelling. This question frames the historical shifts in how authorship has been perceived—from the communal and anonymous practices of the pre-print era to the solitary authorial identity crystallized by the advent of the printing press. With subsequent technological advancements, such as photography, cinema, and digital tools, the concept of authorship further fragmented, incorporating collective, participatory, and algorithmic contributions. The essay examines the transformative role of Artificial Intelligence in reshaping creativity, particularly in architecture, challenging established norms of intellectual property and authorship. Grounded in New Materialism, the discussion reframes authorship as a material phenomenon, arguing for a paradigm where human and non-human actors collaborate in creative processes. By dismantling traditional notions of singular authorship, the essay proposes a liberating view in which authorship and creativity transcend individual agency, offering profound implications for art, architecture, and cultural production in a digitally connected and AI-driven world.
2023
In this paper, I investigate how generative AI affects our thinking abilities. Drawing on Hannah Arendt’s notion of thinking as a “soundless dialogue between me and myself, the two-in-one,” I use Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein as an example of what happens when a knowledgeable person fails to engage in thinking. I show how Victor Frankenstein's scientific endeavor leads to catastrophic consequences because he does not discuss his ideas with peers and lacks solitude, both necessary conditions for thinking and moral considerations. I then ask where thinking occurs in contemporary society, where overstimulation, distraction, and a lack of solitude are widespread. I question how we can heed Clerval's advice to "compose ourselves" in a world of technological distractions that draw us further away from ourselves. I suggest that the humanities, especially the study of literature, can help cultivate the "internal dialogue" required for decision-making, planning, and moral considerations. Finally, I consider the implications of relinquishing the structuring of our cognitive language abilities to artificial agents such as ChatGPT and suggest shifting the focus of literary studies to thinking.
Between Text and Tech: Writing in the Humanities in the Age of Generative AI (Book Chapter)
Future of Learning: AI Integration & Human Expertise in Education, 2025
This paper interrogates the ontological ramifications of Generative AI on academic prose within the Humanities disciplines, positing that the affective dimensions of human experience remain irreducible to algorithmic processing. By taking literary criticism as a prime example of academic writing in the humanities, the paper analyses how Large Language Models (LLMs) challenge established notions of authorship and critical engagement while simultaneously highlighting the enduring significance of idioculture in shaping language and interpretation. Postcritical approaches led by scholars like Rita Felski are explored as a means of navigating this changing landscape, emphasising readerly attunement and the embodied nature of literary performances. This research moves beyond purely instrumentalist assessments of AI's utility in streamlining academic writing to consider the ethical and philosophical complexities at the intersection of human and machine intelligence, arguing for the continued necessity of personal expression and critical humility in scholarly discourse. The paper concludes by advocating for a revitalised approach to writing in the humanities, one that embraces the "irregular fire" of individuality and preserves the tacit dimensions of literary experience.
This paper is a speculative inquiry into how generative Artificial Intelligence may affect our thinking abilities and what the role of the humanities and literary study will be in the process. Drawing on Hannah Arendt's Socratic notion of thinking as an internal dialogue as well as on various philosophical, psychological, and sociological perspectives on solitude and contemporary social character, I show how GenAIs such as ChatGPT present a dual challenge: the potential erosion of human cognitive autonomy and the need for a renewed focus on fostering critical thinking. To illustrate this challenge, I offer a fresh rereading of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818) as a warning against thoughtlessness in the age of scientific progress by drawing a parallel between Victor Frankenstein's lack of solitude and friendship and our own contemporary attitudes towards technology, self, and others. I then ask where thinking can occur in contemporary society, where overstimulation, distraction, and a lack of solitude are widespread. Finally, I call for a renewed emphasis on thinking as a distinct human ability and underscore the importance of literature in preserving spaces for genuine thought and engagement with self and others.
International Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities Invention, 2025
This paper examines the epistemic and ethical dimensions of Luciano Floridi's (2025a) concept of "distant writing," a form of AIassisted composition in which large language models (LLMs) are used to generate, refine, or structure literary and argumentative texts. Drawing on analytic epistemology and virtue theory, and further informed by Floridi's (2025b) thesis on AI as agency without intelligence, it argues that distant writing constitutes a distributed epistemic activity, wherein the human author retains epistemic agency while delegating generative labor to non-agential systems. Central to this analysis is a distinction between epistemic instrumentality and epistemic agency, which clarifies the role of LLMs as sophisticated tools rather than co-authors. The paper explores how procedural, evaluative, and semantic knowledge inform the author's control over AI-generated content and assesses the epistemic risks introduced by the plausibility and opacity of such outputs. In response to concerns about plagiarism, it proposes a normative reformulation of attribution standards, emphasizing transparency and epistemic conscientiousness over traditional notions of originality. Ultimately, the paper situates distant writing within an emerging epistemic ecology in which creativity, authorship, and intellectual responsibility are collaboratively negotiated between human and machine. It advocates for a taxonomy of AI involvement to guide ethical disclosure and preserve the integrity of authorship in an age of synthetic textual production.
Iowa Law Review, 2020
The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) machines using deep learning neural networks to create material that facially looks like it should be protected by copyright is growing exponentially. From articles in national news media to music, film, poetry and painting, AI machines create material that has economic value and that competes with productions of human authors. The Article reviews both normative and doctrinal arguments for and against the protection by copyright of literary and artistic productions made by AI machines. The Article finds that the arguments in favor of protection are flawed and unconvincing and that a proper analysis of the history, purpose, and major doctrines of copyright law all lead to the conclusion that productions that do not result from human creative choices belong to the public domain. The Article proposes a test to determine which productions should be protected, including in case of collaboration between human and machine. Finally, the Article applies the proposed test to three specific fact patterns to illustrate its application.
Bothorship: AI Chatbot Authorship After Two Years
Library Hi Tech News, 2024
Purpose: Bothorship-"bot authorship", or the use of artificial intelligence tools to support writing activitieshas transformed publishing in the few years since the emergence of ChatGPT in late 2022. The bane of the publisher's existence, but a boon for writers, these tools support enhanced writing quality and reduce the amount of time and effort needed to turn research findings into an acceptable manuscript. This paper discusses some of the key aspects of Bothorship as they have emerged in the past two years. Design: This paper explores recent publications and discourse surrounding AI contributions to scholarly publications. Findings: While there are substantial downsides to AI use in scholarly communications, there are also tremendous benefits. Bothorship can level the playing field for non-native English speakers having to navigate an arena (scholarly publishing) where English is the lingua franca. Originality/Value: This paper discusses key issues related to bothorship and AI contributions to publications. It reviews and presents a perspective on the future of AI authorship and copyediting for manuscripts.
SSRN Electronic Journal
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Comprehending AI's Role in Literature and Arts from a Transhumanist Perspective
International Research Journal of Multidisciplinary Scope, 2024
This research paper embarks on a journey into the transhumanistic intersection between human intelligence and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the context of producing literature and arts. It argues that human-AI collaboration is a catalytic process for expansion and innovation, with AI emerging as a potential creative partner. This exploration delves into how AI can serve as an extension of human articulation, enhancing artistic capabilities and broadening the horizons of artistic expression. The study underscores the pivotal role of AI in artistic domains by tracing its historical development in creative fields, examining collaborations between human artists and AI systems, and exploring real-world applications to illuminate the potential advantages and challenges of AI-aided creativity. The paper further delves into the ethical and philosophical considerations surrounding authorship, authenticity, and human intervention in AI-generated elements, as well as their societal and cultural implications, offering a glimpse into how AI applications are reshaping contemporary society. Moreover, the research probes into how AI-generated art disrupts traditional aesthetic art forms, reshapes artistic norms, and fosters versatile interpretations. By scrutinizing the potential impacts and risks associated with AI in literature and arts, this research paper aims to shed light on the symbiotic power of AI as an extension of human intelligence in the creative spectrum within the framework of Transhumanism.