Sympoietic creativity and the boundaries of qing : digital romance writers negotiating generative AI
This study investigates how writers of high-velocity Chinese digital romance fiction negotiate the arrival of generative AI at the desk. Drawing on a 4-year multi-sited digital ethnography (2021–2025) and interviews with 34 writers on Jinjiang Literature City alongside sustained forum observation and platform-discourse analysis, this article tracks how authors of serial romance work under the time discipline of the daily-update treadmill in the presence of large language models (LLMs). I argue t
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Published: 24 July 2026
Source: AI & Society
Category: Research
Topics: Finance, VC & PE
Retrieved: 25 July 2026
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