AJapanese author who won one of Japan’s most prestigious literary awards for her novel — in which artificial intelligence played a central role — revealed that an AI chatbot wrote part of the book.
Rie Kudan’s novel, “The Tokyo Tower of Sympathy” (“Tokyo-to Dojo-to”), took home the Akutagawa Prize on Wednesday, with judges lauding the book as “flawless,” according to The Times.
After the ceremony, Kudan admitted that around 5% of her novel had been “quoted verbatim” from sentences generated by ChatGPT.
“I made active use of generative AI like ChatGPT in writing this book,” Kudan said at a ceremony after receiving the award, per AFP.
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