Japanese Literary Award Winner Reveals She Used ChatGPT To Write Her Book (image: twitter.com/TheBigBangAI)

Author Rie Kudan, who won Japan”s top literary prize named, Akutagawa Prize recently revealed that she has resorted the assistance of ChatGPT to write certain portions of her book. The 33-year-old bagged best work of fiction by a promising new writer for her sci-fi novel Tokyo-to Dojo-to (The Tokyo Tower of Sympathy).

Receiving the award, in her acceptance speech, Rie Kudan said: “This is a novel written by making full use of a generative AI like ChatGPT, and probably about 5 percent of the whole text is written directly from the generative AI,” Vice reported.

“I would like to work well with them to express my creativity,” she added.

The novel which centers around Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a theme, focuses on high-rise prison tower and its architect”s intolerance of criminals. Judges has praised the book as “almost flawless” and “universally enjoyable”. The biannual Akutagawa Prize were given to emerging writers.

Rie Kudan is not the first artist who created controversy surrounding the use of AI in creativity. The internet seems to be divided in their opinion on Rie Kudan”s creative use of ChatGPT; while some defended that as certain sections of her book demands responses generated by AI the assistance is warranted, others stated that it is “disrespectful” for other authors who writes without the assistance of AI.

Meanwhile, writer and prize committee member Keiichiro Hirano said on social media that the selection committee is not finding Rie Kudan”s use of AI as an issue. “It seems there”s a misunderstanding about Rie Kudan”s award-winning work being written using generative AI… If you read it, you”ll see that generative AI was mentioned in the work. While there might be concerns about this kind of usage in the future, it”s not the case with “Tokyo Sympathy Tower,”” India Today quotes as Hirano is saying.