Volume V Special Issue III August 2025

Name of Author : Meghashree

Title of the paper : Death of the Author Rethinking Creativity in the Age of AI

Abstract: The arrival of Artificial Intelligence AI in creative processes has reopened theoretical and practical arguments over authorship, originality, and creativity. Building on poststructuralist challenges by Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault, this article examines how works produced by AI pose a threat to the classical building of the author as meaningmaker. While Barthes proclaimed the death of the author to put the reader in the foreground, Foucault reasserted authorship as a socialcultural process. These concepts take on new meaning as AI programs such as GPT4 and DALL·E produce work without consciousness or intention. The essay considers if AI can be conceived of as a creative agent, the legal and ethical consequences of assigning authorship to machines, and how AI reconfigures creativity as a distributed, collaborative process. It concludes with an advocacy for pluralist authorship involving humanAI collaboration and resolves agency, ownership, and authenticity issues in the digital space.

Keywords : AI authorship, Poststructuralism, Creativity, Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault

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Page Number : 133-137