The Epistemology of Literary Discourse in the Digital Age: A Critical Review of the Stakes of “Artificial Intelligence” and the Disintegration of Authorial Centrality

This study approaches the profound epistemic transformations that have affected the structure of literary discourse amid the rise of artificial intelligence systems, taking the “digital text” as a laboratory for re-examining the concepts of intentionality and creativity. The research seeks to deconstruct the notion of “authorial centrality” and to trace the displacement of the creative subject’s authority in favor of algorithmic processes that reproduce linguistic patterns according to technical and mathematical criteria.

The study also addresses the dialectical impasse between human consciousness and machine-generated output, moving beyond descriptive accounts toward an analysis of the “hybrid text identity,” which lacks emotional and historical referentiality despite its simulation of creativity. The central problem lies in assessing the extent to which automatically generated texts can possess epistemic meanings susceptible to rigorous critical analysis.

The study concludes by emphasizing the necessity of devising procedural tools and a new epistemic model capable of accommodating the conditions of meaning production within the environment of literary automation. Such an approach would establish a critical vision that combines methodological rigor with philosophical depth in order to confront the challenges of “digitization,” which has fundamentally reshaped the creative process in its entirety.