She publicly announced at the awards ceremony that she used ChatGPT to write about 5% of the content in her award-winning novel.
The judges reportedly called Rie Kudan’s novel “almost flawless.”
Her science fiction novel, Tokyo-to Dojo-to/Tokyo Sympathy Tower, tells the story of a towering prison tower and revolves around artificial intelligence.
The Akudagawa Prize is Japan’s top prize in pure literature, awarded semi-annually to emerging writers, and the winners usually receive a lot of media attention.
The Japan Times reported on Friday that the reaction on social media was swift and harsh, with many commenters expressing concern about what the future of literature would look like if artificial intelligence were allowed to compete for the top prize.
The controversy surrounding the use of generative AI in the creative field remains significant because these systems are trained on a large corpus of other authors’ work.
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