Negotiating Authorship with Generative AI in Cinema Education: Attribution and Creative Decision-Making in Screenwriting
CINEJ CINEMA JOURNAL, cilt.14, sa.2, ss.499-537, 2026 (ESCI, Scopus)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Cilt numarası: 14 Sayı: 2
- Basım Tarihi: 2026
- Dergi Adı: CINEJ CINEMA JOURNAL
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Scopus, Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), Film & Television Literature Index, International Index to Film Periodicals, MLA - Modern Language Association Database, Directory of Open Access Journals, MLA International Bibliography
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.499-537
- Açık Arşiv Koleksiyonu: AVESİS Açık Erişim Koleksiyonu
- Anadolu Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
This study examines how cinema students attribute authorship during AI-assisted screenwriting and how those judgments relate to creative decisions. Drawing on a fourteen-week, design-based course, it compares logbooks with 436 student turns across twenty generative-AI conversations. In four of six co-writing cases, students selected and retained system-originated material. The clearest tension appeared when students claimed the idea as their own but assigned the text entirely to AI while repeatedly rejecting generated material, a response the instrument’s own categories leave ambiguous. Read against Livingston, Gaut and Sellors, these cases show that textual generation, creative decision-making and authorship attribution can diverge within one process. Cinema education should ask not only who authored a text, but on what basis.