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From Inherited Myths to Machine-made Myths: Reconfiguring Mythic Discourse in Ai-generated Contemporary Narratives

Author(s) Ms. Komal Joshi, Dr. Dr. Monika Choudhary, Prof. Dr. Subhash Sharma
Country India
Abstract Generative artificial intelligence has introduced a new condition of narrative production in which stories can be generated through prompts, transformed through iterative interaction, and circulated through digital platforms. This development raises a narratological question that extends beyond whether machines can imitate human writing: what happens to myth when inherited narrative patterns are statistically recombined by a generative system? This paper examines AI-generated storytelling as a site of mythic transformation. Drawing on Roland Barthes’s account of myth as a cultural signifying process, Northrop Frye’s conception of recurring literary structures, Joseph Campbell’s discussion of mythic patterning, and Gérard Genette’s account of textual relations, the paper argues that AI-generated narratives do not simply reproduce old myths. Rather, they reassemble recognizable archetypes, motifs, symbolic oppositions, and plot structures into new narrative configurations. The paper proposes a “mythic transformation cycle” consisting of inheritance, algorithmic recombination, human selection and editing, and cultural circulation. To demonstrate the usefulness of this model, it considers hypothetical and prompt-generated narrative fragments involving Prometheus, Pygmalion, and the figure of the artificial creator. The analysis suggests that the novelty of AI myth-making lies less in autonomous invention than in the speed and scale with which cultural materials can be recombined and returned to human readers as apparently new stories. AI therefore becomes a new narrative environment in which myth continues to evolve through interaction among cultural memory, computational patterning, human intention, and reader interpretation.
Keywords artificial intelligence, myth, generative AI, narratology, algorithmic narrative, mythic discourse
Published In Volume 8, Issue 5, September-October 2026
Published On 2026-10-10
DOI https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2026.v08i05.89386
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