Creativity and the Authority of Meaning: Between Arabic Rhetoric and the Automated Generation of Texts

Abstract:

This study examines the concept of linguistic creativity in the light of Arabic rhetorical heritage and modern literary criticism and compares it with text-generation mechanisms in artificial intelligence models. Adopting a comparative analytical approach, the study investigates the views of classical Arab critics, particularly Abd al-Qahir al-Jurjani and Al-Jahiz, alongside contemporary perspectives in linguistic and cultural criticism. The findings reveal that human creativity is grounded in consciousness, context, and lived experience, whereas AI-generated texts depend on statistical and symbolic processing that lacks intentionality. The study concludes that, despite their ability to simulate human language effectively, AI-generated texts do not reach the level of human creativity in terms of semantic depth and aesthetic awareness.