ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND LITERATURE: A STRUGGLE FOR ORIGINALITY

In times when Artificial intelligence is gaining centre stage of the development of mankind and his endeavours, one faces a dilemma about the role of Artificial Intelligence in the literature. Artificial intelligence is rapidly integrating itself into the literary creations today and has redesigned the notions about authorship, creativity and originality. The dilemma whether human imagination is more creative or the machine algorithm is something one needs to address today. While the traditional literature is filled with personal experiences, emotions and culture around the author who creates the poem or novel or a book and has a unique style. Artificial intelligence on other hand can mimic the style, thematic complexity and narrative structures thus, creating something original in its own style. The central issue of the dilemma is originality. The ones using artificial intelligence in literature argue that literature has never been absolute, as all writings exits within the network of influence, inspiration and reinterpretation. This paper explores these both dimensions of dilemma and collected opinions of individuals who are studying or teaching literature in various languages, alongwith those who are not scholars of literature but do use artificial intelligence for some literary creation.