Chinese Journal of Literary Criticism

No.2, 2024

The Production of Meaning of Literary “Creation” by Artificial General Intelligence

(Abstract)

Sun Qing

Literary “creation” by AGI has the potential to subvert human literary writing to a certain extent. The production of meaning of literary “creation” is achieved in two main ways. First, through the personalized processing of databases and the acquisition of human natural language capabilities, as well as the increase in multi-modal information processing capabilities, AGI has the ability to “create” literary works, giving them a certain “originality.” Second, through the imitation of literary language, the capture of literary archetypes, and the interaction with reader’s interpretation, the means of generating the emotional “expression” of the work are thus strengthened, and the literary work is endowed with a certain degree of emotion. Of course, the literary works “created” by AGI and human literary works have essential differences: the former is the latter’s mirroring, showing the latest achievements of technological civilization; the latter is the former’s reference, and also provides data materials for the former to learn.