Precarity and Solidarity: Preliminary Results on a Study of Queer and Disabled Fiction Writers’ Experiences with Generative AI

Lamb, Carolyn; Brown, Daniel G.; Grossman, Maura R.

doi:10.24963/ijcai.2025/1124

Precarity and Solidarity: Preliminary Results on a Study of Queer and Disabled Fiction Writers’ Experiences with Generative AI

Carolyn Lamb, Daniel G. Brown, Maura R. Grossman

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Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. AI, Arts & Creativity. Pages 10117-10125.

https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2025/1124

Keywords

Theory and philosophy of arts and creativity in AI systems: Cultural and social impacts of AI on creativity, creative practice, education and society
Theory and philosophy of arts and creativity in AI systems: Ethical issues raised by creative AI systems
Application domains: Text, literature and creative language

Abstract

We present a mixed-methods study of professional fiction writers' experiences with generative AI (genAI), primarily focused on queer and disabled writers. Queer and disabled writers are markedly more pessimistic than others about the impact of genAI on their industry, although pessimism is the majority attitude for all groups. We explore how genAI exacerbates existing causes of precarity for writers, reasons why writers are opposed to its use, and strategies used by marginalized fiction writers to safeguard their industry.

Carolyn Lamb, Daniel G. Brown, and Maura R. Grossman. 2025. Precarity and Solidarity: Preliminary Results on a Study of Queer and Disabled Fiction Writers’ Experiences with Generative AI. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI-25. IJCAI, 10117–10125. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2025/1124

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