A inteligência artificial como ficção teratológica. Imagem, imaginação técnicae criação em Vilém Flusser
This article examines generative artificial intelligence through Vilém Flusser's philosophy of language, imagination, and technics, proposing to understand it as teratological fiction. In contrast to approaches centered on machine autonomy or the possibility of artificial consciousness, it argues that generative AI should be interpreted as a modality of technical imagination produced through the objectification of human imagination in technical apparatuses. Methodologically, the study combines a historical reconstruction of the development of technics with an analysis of Flusser's concepts of Language, translation, imagination, apparatus, and freedom, while engaging with Monster Studies to provide a philosophical account of monstrosity. It argues that artificial intelligence does not generate original meanings but probabilistically reorganizes linguistic translations accumulated within culture, remaining dependent on human interpretation to acquire significance. Fritz Lang's Maschinenmensch in Metropolis (1927) is interpreted as the paradigmatic philosophical image of this condition, condensing the tensions between creation, fascination, alterity, and freedom that characterize modern technical artifacts. The article concludes that the monstrosity attributed to artificial intelligence is not an intrinsic property of computational systems but a cultural experience arising from the objectification of human imagination in technical devices. Its principal contribution is to shift the philosophical debate on artificial intelligence from the question of intelligence to that of technical imagination, proposing the concept of teratological fiction as a conceptual framework for understanding the contemporary relationship between technics, culture, and human freedom.