AI and Literature: The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Creative Writing and Narrative Forms

Abstract

The fast development of artificial intelligence (AI) has just started transforming many spheres of creation, and literature and narrative storytelling become one of the most crucial spheres of such changes. The paper provides an investigation into the changing dynamics of AI technologies in literary creation, touching upon a research gap in the existing conceptions of the impact of algorithmic systems on the writing of literary texts and narrative forms, as well as writerly paradigms. The main goal is to explore how far a viable AI technology in the way stories are conceived, composed, and understood, namely large language models, narrative generators, and co-creative writing tools is. Also, the paper explores the problem of the way in which AI is eroding the conventional ideas of originality and human author-centered authorship in literary culture. Using a mixed-methods methodology, the studies have used a combination of qualitative analysis of AI-generated stories with quantitative surveys and interviews with writers, literary critics and computer programmers. The comparison of texts is made using written human works and created with an AI-assistance with the resultation of the assessment of the stylistic convergence, theme novelty, and the perception of the reader. The results imply that AI is not only helpful in the novel forms of narration like nonlinear, hyper textual and hybrid narrating, but also that it enables a democratization of literary production. Nonetheless, issues on the authenticity of creativity and ethical authorship, as well as art commodity, are still under question. The study highlights the role of AI that is both a device and co-creator, which led to a reconsideration of the literary theory and practice. To sum up, the present study reveals the disruptive effect of AI to the literature world, providing an insight into the future of writing and creative services in an era of clever machines.