Artificial Intelligence and The Future of Literary Creativity

Abstract

This paper critically examines the implications of artificial intelligence for literary creativity, authorship, and the philosophy of language. As large language models demonstrate increasingly sophisticated capacities for generating coherent, stylistically varied, and contextually appropriate prose and poetry, fundamental assumptions about the nature of literary creativity, originality, and meaning are called into question. The study draws upon philosophical aesthetics, computational linguistics, and contemporary literary theory to investigate three central questions: whether AI-generated texts can be considered literature, how AI challenges Romantic and modernist conceptions of authorship, and what the rise of AI writing means for the future of human literary expression. The paper argues for a collaborative model of human-AI literary production that neither romanticizes human creativity nor reduces it to computation.