Human Voices and Algorithmic Echoes: Resignifying Transfeminine Experiences Through Hybrid Poetics Framework

Title

Human Voices and Algorithmic Echoes: Resignifying Transfeminine Experiences Through Hybrid Poetics Framework

Creator

Dev, Neerej; Joy, Silpa

Description

Advances in generative artificial intelligence (AI) are reshaping cultural production, yet questions remain about whether machine-authored texts can authentically represent marginalized lives. This study examines the capacity of OpenAIs GPT-4o to represent the lived experiences of transfeminine individuals using a three-phase Hybrid Poetics Framework (HPF). Ten transfeminine participants were recruited through purposive maximum variation sampling. Semi-structured interviews and a participatory focus group (FGD-1) informed the creation of both human-generated poems (HGPs) and AI-generated poems (GPT-4o poems). In the reception phase, participants completed an authorship discrimination task and poetic quality ratings, followed by a structured poetry-reflection focus group (FGD-2). Results show that participants identified authorship above chance and rated HGPs higher for Emotional Quality, Atmosphere, and Structural Quality, while AI poems were praised for polish but perceived as emotionally distant. By contrast, creativity showed overlap across conditions.Findings foreground authenticity, affective fidelity, and ethical risks in AI-mediated representation. We propose bounded legibility and community co-governance as safeguards and introduce the Hybrid Poetics Framework (HPF) as a methodological approach for operationalizing participatory evaluation in Human Computer Interaction (HCI). 2026 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.

Source

International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction;

Date

01-01-2026

Publisher

Taylor and Francis Ltd.

Subject

AI poetry; human-generated poems; humancomputer interaction; hybrid poetics framework; transfeminine

Coverage

Dev N., Department of Social Science and Humanities, University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, United Kingdom; Joy S., Department of Functional and Applied English, St. Josephs College, Kerala, Devagiri, India, Department of English and Cultural Studies, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore, India

Rights

Restricted Access; Hardcopy may be available in the library

Relation

ISSN: 10447318;

Format

online

Language

English

Type

Article

Identifier

https://doi.org/10.1080/10447318.2026.2615218

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