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Rei Kudan, winner of the most prestigious literary award in Japan, revealed that the generative artificial intelligence program “Chat GPT” took over the writing of some paragraphs of her novel with a future climate, considering that it helped her demonstrate her abilities in the field of writing.
Kudan’s latest novel, “Tower of Mercy in Tokyo”, won the semi-annual Akutagawa Literary Prize yesterday, Wednesday, as the jury considered that it “reaches such a degree of perfection that it is difficult to find any flaw in it.”
But Ri Kudan (33 years old) admitted during a celebration that she used “all the capabilities of artificial intelligence to write this book,” explaining that “about 5% of the book consists of sentences generated by artificial intelligence,” which she reported verbatim.
Concern is growing in various sectors, including publishing from an artificial intelligence tool launched in 2022, which can produce texts on demand in a few seconds.
Artificial intelligence appears repeatedly in Kudan’s book, which takes place in a future Tokyo, and deals with a tower-shaped prison designed by an architect disturbed by society’s excessive tolerance.
Kudan noted that she is constantly having conversations with the AI tool, telling it her very private thoughts that she cannot “talk about with anyone else,” adding that GBT Chat’s responses sometimes inspired dialogues in the novel.
She explained that she wants to maintain “good relations” with artificial intelligence and “unleash its creativity.”
The organization responsible for the Akutagawa Prize did not want to comment on these statements in response to a question from Agence France-Presse.
Opinions were divided on social media, as some activists considered that what Kudan did was not permissible in terms of ethics.
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Others praised the novelist’s ingenuity and the efforts she made during her conversations with artificial intelligence to extract texts.
Books listing ChatGBT as a co-author are available for sale through Amazon’s e-book self-publishing service, but they are generally considered to be of poor quality.
A number of writers, including George R.R. Martin, “Game of Thrones”, have also filed suits against the California startup OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, accusing it of violating their copyrights.
The emergence of easy-to-use and widely available artificial intelligence tools has created a new type of “robot literature.” Amazon currently offers more than 200 books written by robots using the GPT program as an author or co-author, and this number is increasing every year. day.
