Digital Textuality in the World of AI-Powered Creativity

Abstract

The influence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on almost every aspect of the world, including creativity, has increased in recent years. AI has started to change how people write, distribute, and consume their creative works. Digital textuality - or text that is produced in digital formats with the assistance of digital technologies such as software applications, algorithms, and databases - has become an emerging concept that describes how creative works will now exist within a global context. Miller's book, "The Artist in the Machine: The World of AI-Powered Creativity," provides an early look at this concept, and how the creative process is evolving into a collaborative process between humans and machines. In addition to Miller's work, this paper investigates digital textuality in relation to authorship, originality, and meaning, as they apply to contemporary creative practices. Digital texts are not restricted to the same model of fixed, one-time prints as traditional printed works; instead, digital texts can be changed, modified, and created collaboratively by both human and machine creativity. In reviewing Miller's work, as well as perspectives from digital humanities and literary theory, this paper argues that AI's influence on creativity creates a new paradigm of cultural production, where the creativity of humans and computers interact to create new meanings. The rise of digital textuality through AI will allow creative practitioners to expand their way of thinking and to create more innovative forms of expressions, interpretations, and critical thought, rather than threatening literature.