The winner of one of Japan's most prestigious literary awards has admitted that about 5% of her novels were written by ChatGPT, arguing that artificial intelligence (AI) helps unleash creativity.
ChatGPT is an AI application that can answer questions in any field, as well as write essays, poems, compose music, design, and even debug programming. Since its launch in late 2022, ChatGPT has raised concerns about its impact in a variety of fields, including publishing.
Writer Rie Kudan won the Akutagawa Prize for her latest novel, Tokyo-to Dojo-to, on January 17. The prize is awarded every two years and the jury praised Kudan's work as "near perfect" and "universally loved", according to AFP.
Writer Rie Kudan (right corner).
Set in futuristic Tokyo, the book revolves around a high-rise prison and the architect's uncompromising attitude towards crime, with AI being a recurring theme.
The female writer born in 1990 openly admitted that AI also greatly affects her writing process.
"I have been actively using generative AI (products) like ChatGPT to write this book. I can say that about 5% of the book is verbatim quotes from AI-generated sentences," Ms. Kudan said at the ceremony after the winner was announced.
Outside of her creative pursuits, Kudan says she often plays with the AI, sharing her deepest thoughts that she “could never tell anyone else.” ChatGPT’s responses sometimes inspire dialogue in her novels, she says.
In the future, she said she wants to maintain a "good relationship" with AI and "unleash my creativity" with technology.
(According to Thanh Nien, January 18)
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