The Development of Vernacular Creativity in the Context of The Culture of Neural Networks
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: The literary research paper proposes the concept of the reskilling phase into the research oriented at the implementation of generative artificial intelligence in the writing process, especially in the context of fiction writing. The reskilling phase does not refer to the disappearance of authorial competence, but rather to its structural rebuilding under conditions of human–machine co-production. The paper places this phase within the framework of digital culture as a continuation and intensification of tendencies established by the Web 2.0 paradigm and analyzed by its key theoreticians. While presenting vernacularization and theoretical groundings of Web 2.0 as the initial conceptual frameworks, we study the consequences of the vernacularization of cultural production on the debates about the contexts of artificial neural networks in literature and the arts in the contemporary era. We also look into the periods that trace the gradual embedding of LLMs into the artistic practice. We believe that the mutual relationship between the Web 2.0 paradigm and generative AI provides a suitable potential for a thorough understanding of the consequences of generative AI on our culture. The study presents an empirical dataset drawn from a sample of 23 amateur authors who participated in a Czech short story writing contest. A contextual example from Slovak public radio provides a supplementary example. By including the dataset, we aimed to advance a broader theoretical argument about the redistribution of literary competence and its delegation to the computational model.
Source: Open Library of Humanities
DOI: 10.16995/olh.28634
Authors: Karel Piorecký, Zuzana Husárová
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7207620855