Abstract

The rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) technology has brought new possibilities for poetry creation, but it has also triggered ethical controversies over the dissolution of literary subjectivity and the survival of humanistic values. Based on the theory of techno-social construction, this study adopts a qualitative research method to systematically explore the technological acceptance and ethical anxiety of AI poetry creation among students of literature departments in Chinese colleges and universities through questionnaire surveys (with 212 valid samples) and in-depth interviews (with two interviewees). The study finds that the student body generally recognizes the instrumental value of AI in terms of formal standardization and creative efficiency, but senior students, due to the deepening of their academic training, emphasize the irreplaceability of humanistic kernels such as literary "mood" and "flavor", and criticize the homogenization and affective mechanization of AI creation. The study further reveals that students' resistance to technological alienation through strategies such as "embedding private memories" and "artificial coloring" reflects the "author-centrism" and "poetic expression" in literary education. In addition, the fragmentation of social media communication has intensified the anxiety about the loss of literary depth, while the limitations of AI in decoding cultural metaphors highlight the rupture between technological logic and humanistic experience. This study provides implications for the dilemma of the survival of humanistic values in the technological era, calling on literary education to critically embrace technological tools while strengthening the centrality of individual life experience in creation, in order to guard the kernel of literature's humanistic spirit.