Artificial Intelligence and Literary Production: Rethinking Writing, Authorship, Creativity, and Reading Cultures in the Digital Age

Abstract

This study focuses on the production of literature by examining the radical nature of artificial intelligence in the digital era, on the basis of writing, and writing styles, creativity, readership and reading cultures. With the growing role of algorithmic tools in the text’s creation, editing and construction, the concept of the author as the sole creative force comes into question. This paper analyzes the revolutionary character of the collaboration of interactions between human authors and AI systems on style experimentations, narrative voices, and the perimeters around novelty and automation. The analysis draws upon the perspectives of contemporary literary theories, digital humanities, alongside reader-response criticism, to examine the difference between AI written texts and human authored ones. By assessing their creativity and textual meaning the project also takes into account how the readers interact with literature that is produced or mediated by intelligent technologies. It examines the shifting visions of genuineness, novelty, and aesthetics that carries worth in digital reading groups. It is possible to locate AI driven literary writings in the wider historical developments in media and technology. Therefore, this research suggests that artificial intelligence is not just a tool, it is a cultural agent that shapes literature’s form and understanding. Lastly, this research will add to the existing research on creativity, intellectual property, and the dynamics ecology in literature. It proposes a critical model of the way in which new technologies redefine the way the literary texts are produced and perceived in the modern society.