AI²: Artificial Intelligence and Authorial Intent

The question of authorial intent asks whether a creator's intentions have any bearing on the meaning of their work.  The introduction of large language models (LLMs) and their use by students and scholars revives this problem with some old and new questions: Does an author's identity affect their work's meaning?  Must an author have some sort of independent agency (and can we attribute agency to an LLM)?  If only a reader's interpretation determines a work's meaning, could two copies of the same work, one by a human and one by an LLM, be reduced to one and the same?  We will explore some of these and other questions in a whirlwind tour at the intersection of authorship, AI, and the philosophy of mind.