AI Is an Ideological Device in the Form of Preferences
The Standard of ''Maximum Profit'' Applied to the Artistic Domain
Poetic Language Is a Place Preserving the Surplus of Human Thought

Im Ji-hun''s paper doesn''t view the AI era as a sudden event but sees it as instrumental reason — which has dominated modern society — being even more extremely completed through AI. The problem is not AI itself but efficiency, calculation, and productivity logic that has long eroded all of society now pushing into language, art, and poetry.

AI operates not through human-meaningful thought approaching truth through doubt and contradiction, but by averaging data tendencies and processing high-repetition content as coherent — systematically pushing aside the exceptional, the insufficiently spoken, the low-frequency but potentially important truth. Generative AI has become part of an ideological apparatus precisely by selecting and processing data to provide preferred answers.

The real crisis of poetry is not who writes but what language becomes socially dominant. Prompt language — specifying goals, segmenting conditions, making results evaluable — treats ambiguity, polysemy, white space, and rhythm as variables to manage, not as values. When this becomes society''s standard, poetic language''s ontological status itself is shaken. AI readers becoming consumers selecting from infinite generated content means reading being replaced by consuming — literature functioning as customized emotional content rather than a medium of thought.

Grounding in Adorno, the author argues poetry''s value lies in form that preserves what cannot be reduced to efficiency or measured numerically — not in ''what was said'' but ''what form ultimately leaves unreduced.'' Poetry''s crisis paradoxically makes its definition clearer: as the place witnessing irreducible humanity in an era when systems replace creative subjects.