AI Shocks as it Wins Major Literary Award in China

AI has shocked both critics and writers by winning an award at an official literary competition in China.

In the 5th Jiangsu Province Science Fiction and Popular Science Competition (China), with the participation of about 200 literary works submitted to the competition, the work titled 'The Land of Machine Memories' created entirely by artificial intelligence ( AI ) won 2nd place, creating widespread debate in the media across China.

Professor Shen Yanggu at the School of Journalism and Communication at Tsinghua University in Beijing planned and completed the work in just three hours. The manuscript, which has more than 40,000 characters, was generated from 66 text requests sent to the AI and is written in a Kafkaesque, surrealist fantasy style, characterized by an absurd and surreal plot.

Titled 'The Land of Machine Memory', the work chronicles the adventures of the female protagonist Li Xiao in the hyperverse as she seeks to recover her lost real-life memories.

According to Professor Shen Yanggu, all entries were generated by AI, including the novel layout and illustrations, and even the pen name '@SiliconZen' was chosen by AI.

Professor Shen Yanggu submitted the work to the competition without revealing the real 'author' of the work. Only one member of the jury knew that the work was created by AI.

The purpose of this is to be able to hear the completely fair and independent opinions of the judges. That is not against the rules, as the competition has so far not introduced a rule prohibiting the use of AI.

Despite the award being announced, the competition jury decided that the work 'Land of Machine Memory' could not be published immediately and would need to be heavily edited, as AI-written text was still very different from human-generated text.

One jury member said that AI-generated products will either be a short-lived historical phenomenon or a serious challenge for the creative community in the future.

Previously, in April 2023, a photographer from Berlin (Germany) won the World Photography Award organized by Sony for a photo created by AI, but refused the award on the grounds that AI products and traditional photography should not be in the same competition.

(according to Securitylab)

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