Human-AI Interaction Traces as Blackout Poetry: Reframing AI-Supported Writing as Found-Text Creativity

arXiv:2604.09605v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLMs offer new creative possibilities for writers but also raise concerns about authenticity and reader trust, particularly when AI involvement is disclosed. Prior research has largely framed this as an issue of transparency and provenance, emphasizing the disclosure of human-AI interaction traces that account for how much the AI wrote and what the human did. Yet such audit-oriented disclosures may risk reducing creative collaboration to quantifi