After Japanese author Rie Kudan won the prestigious Akutagawa Prize for her fiction book “The Tokyo Tower of Sympathy,” she admitted to using ChatGPT to generate around 5% of the text. The 33-year-old’s novel centers around an architect tasked with building a comfortable high-rise prison in Tokyo for rehabilitating law breakers. It features artificial intelligence as a theme.
At a press conference, Kudan said she would consult ChatGPT about personal problems she felt unable to tell anyone. “When the AI did not say what I expected, I sometimes reflected my feelings in the lines of the main character,” she stated.
The prize committee lauded “The Tokyo Tower of Sympathy” as “practically flawless” but member Keiichiro Hirano said on social media platform X, formerly Twitter, that the panel did not view Kudan’s ChatGPT use as an issue.
Kudan’s admission has generated some controversy in the creative community, where many feel AI threatens jobs. Last year, photographer Boris Eldagsen withdrew from the Sony Awards after revealing his winning photo was AI-generated. Authors including George R.R. Martin have sued OpenAI, ChatGPT’s creator, over using copyrighted works for training. Over 10,000 authors signed a letter seeking consent and compensation for using their writing to develop AI models.
While some expressed interest in Kudan’s creative application of AI, others called it “disrespectful” to authors not utilizing the technology. Kudan stated she plans to continue profiting from AI in writing novels while fully expressing her creativity.
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