A novel written using ChatGPT has won a prestigious literary award in Japan. A work written using ChatGPT has won a literary award in Japan. The novel ‘The Tokyo Tower of Sympathy’ written by Japanese writer Rei Kudan has won Japan’s prestigious Akutagawa Literary Award.
According to author Kudan, about five percent of the ‘text’ of this novel has been prepared by AI. For this, she has written a prompt about the required topic, given it to ChatGPT, and put it in the ‘text’ novel prepared on the basis of that.
Kudan, a 33-year-old writer, has also said that AI encouraged her to embody her creations. The jury of the Akutagawa Prize praised this book.
AI is also the main theme of the award-winning novel. The novel describes a Tokyo of the future where robots and AIs are everywhere. In that case, the story is about how the people there deal with them.
On the other hand, George R.R. used his writing material to train AI models. Famous authors like Martin, Jody Picoult, and John Grisham filed a lawsuit against ChatGPT last year. In addition, more than 10,000 authors wrote an open letter to AI companies, demanding permission before training any model and demanding.