Abstract
This essay—which is not only about human-machine collaboration but is a performance in human-machine collaboration—interrogates the shifting terrain of authorship and creativity in the age of generative artificial intelligence (GAI). Challenging both the instrumentalist view of technology and the romantic myth of the singular genius, it argues for a reconceptualization of creative production as distributed, dialogical, and co-constituted. Drawing on both theoretical innovations in poststructuralism and the practices of pre- and post-modern content creators, the essay repositions the algorithm not as a mere tool but as an active participant in the generation of meaning. In doing so, it exposes and disrupts—in both content and form—the metaphysical assumptions that continue to underwrite our understanding of writing, agency, and communication.
DOI
10.30658/hmc.10.2
Author ORCID Identifier
David J. Gunkel: 0000-0002-9385-4536 
Recommended Citation
Gunkel, D. J. (2025). Prompted by me. Generated by ChatGPT. Human-Machine Communication, 10, 31–42. https://doi.org/10.30658/hmc.10.2
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