AI in Digital Humanities: Using AI-Generated Poetry as a Tool for Literary Studies

Mukesh Soni; Govindaraju T

doi:10.34293/sijash.v12iS4.May.9152

Mukesh Soni Assistant Professor of English Dayananda Sagar College of Arts, Science and Commerce, Bangalore
Govindaraju T Associate Professor, Department of English R.P.A. First Grade College, Bangalore

DOI: https://doi.org/10.34293/sijash.v12iS4.May.9152

Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, Digital Humanities, Computational Poetry, Literary Analysis, Authorship, Creativity

Abstract

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has a profound impact on digital humanities, and creative writing and literary analysis are the frontier research areas it is re-shaping. This study investigates the potential quality of AI-generated poetry as a tool for literary investigation, with particular emphasis on interpretation of poetical texts, development in ways poetry is expressed and implications. A thorough qualitative analysis of AI-produced poetry shows its stylistic traits, thematic integrity and implications for authorship. Several issues of ethical interest surround originality, biases in the AI training datasets, and the effect of human and authorial creativity. (Berry, 2011; Boden, 2018; Hayles, 2017).