Sumanta Pramanik1* & Shri Krishan Rai2
1,2 Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Institute of Technology Durgapur, India.
Rupkatha Journal, Vol. 15, Issue 4, 2023. https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n4.12
[Article History: Received: 30 October 2023. Revised: 09 December 2023. Accepted: 10 December 2023. Published: 18 December 2023]
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Abstract
In a world that is increasingly lost to narrative building, deep fakes, simulation of realities and dissemination of fake news generated by artificial intelligence (AI), we are moving towards a post-truth era. Our thoughts are being manipulated and twisted with (mis)information for the benefit of people in power; thus, our consent is being manufactured with the aid of AI, resulting in ideological imperialism. In such a scenario, when AI is slowly taking control over the planet and creating our digital replicas by cloning our consciousness, what will our future look like? Humans’ creative pursuits have already predicted such futures in various movies, comics, novels and web series depicting the myriad complications associated with an impending AI takeover. Thus, contextualising today’s scenario within the scope of the future, the paper aims to dissect some popular speculative narratives offered through various tissues of culture, including movies, comics, novels and web series, to comprehend the consequences those narratives generate to grasp the changing relationalities between real and unreal, and truth and post-truth in a world run in codes and simulation.
Keywords: Artificial intelligence (AI), post-truth, simulation, surveillance, ideological imperialism, speculative narratives.
Sustainable Development Goals: Better Education
Citation: Pramanik, S. & Rai, S.K. (2023). AI Take-Over in Literature and Culture: Truth, Post-Truth, and Simulation. Rupkatha Journal 15:4. https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n4.12
