This essay proposes and explores the concept of Collage for the design of AI writing tools, transferred from avant-garde literature with four facets: 1) fragmenting text in writing interfaces, 2) juxtaposing voices (content vs command), 3) integrating material from multiple sources (e.g. text suggestions), and 4) shifting from manual writing to editorial and compositional decision-making, such as selecting and arranging snippets. The essay then employs Collage as an analytical lens to analyse the user interface design of recent AI writing tools, and as a constructive lens to inspire new design directions. Finally, a critical perspective relates the concerns that writers historically expressed through literary collage to AI writing tools. In a broad view, this essay explores how literary concepts can help advance design theory around AI writing tools. It encourages creators of future writing tools to engage not only with new technological possibilities, but also with past writing innovations.

翻译：本文提出并探讨了“拼贴”这一概念在AI写作工具设计中的应用，该概念源自先锋文学，包含四个维度：1)在写作界面中碎片化文本，2)并置不同声音（内容与指令），3)整合多源材料（如文本建议），4)从手动写作转向编辑与构成决策，例如选择与排列文本片段。本文随后将“拼贴”作为分析视角，用以剖析近期AI写作工具的用户界面设计，并作为建设性视角以启发新的设计方向。最后，通过批判性视角将作家历史上通过文学拼贴所表达的关切与AI写作工具联系起来。从宏观视角看，本文探讨了文学概念如何助力推进AI写作工具的设计理论，并鼓励未来写作工具的创造者不仅关注新的技术可能性，同时借鉴历史上的写作创新。