GenAI and Authentic Writing
Some people fear that if writing no longer takes reality as its point of departure but instead draws from other texts, then AI-generated writing could be seen as equally valid as human writing, perhaps even superior, with no grounds left to claim authenticity as a distinguishing value.
Why would anyone think this in the first place? In literary studies, it is common to speak of intertextuality, and some theoreticians, including T. S. Eliot and Harold Bloom, even suggest that writing is nothing but an interaction with tradition and a recombination of bits and pieces of text.