Rie Kudan, winner of Japan’s most prestigious Akutagawa literary award, has revealed that part of his new book was created by ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence system.
The 33-year-old author, whose new novel titled “Tokyo Sympathy Tower” (rough translation) has received the delight of the jury of the Akutagawa Literary Prize. The jury rated the book as “so perfect that it’s hard to find errors” and at the award ceremony, Rie Kudan shockingly revealed that she took advantage of artificial intelligence to compose the book. this product.
Controversy over the work that won Japan’s most prestigious literary award using AI
About 5% of the book’s content was created by ChatGPT, Kudan said. She is also not afraid to express that she often chats with this artificial intelligence to find inspiration and share her secret thoughts. She believes that using AI software has helped her develop her creative potential and wants to maintain a “good relationship” with AI.
Rie Kudan, winner of Japan’s most prestigious Akutagawa literary award, has revealed that part of his book uses AI. Photo: CNN.
However, not everyone shares the same opinion about this female author’s act of combining culture and artificial intelligence. Some people doubt its morality and ask the question, does Rie Kudan deserve to receive this prestigious Japanese literary award?
A user on social network X wrote: “So she wrote a book using AI skillfully… Is that talent? I don’t know.”
Writer Keiichiro Hirano, a member of the Akutagawa literary prize committee, said the jury did not consider Rie Kudan’s use of AI a problem.
“It seems that the story of Rie Kudan’s award-winning work being written using AI has been misunderstood… If you read it then you will see that AI was also mentioned in the work. There will be problems with its usage AI in the future, but that is not the case with “Tokyo Sympathy Tower”.
But while some people on social media expressed interest in Kudan’s creative use of AI and said they were now more interested in her work, others said, it is “disrespectful” to other authors who write without the aid of technology.
ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence tool launched in 2022, currently causing concerns in many different fields. Many prominent figures in the cultural world criticized it as “the death of true art” and a “ridiculous mockery of humanity”.
Recently, British author Salman Rushdie also expressed his opinion, saying that a piece of text created by artificial intelligence is “garbage”. John Grisham and “Game of Thrones” creator George R.R. Martin even filed a 2023 class action lawsuit against OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, over alleged copyright infringement.
Meanwhile, last year, an artist declined an award from the Sony World Photography Awards because their winning photo was actually created using the AI program DALL-E 2, not a work of photography. traditional.