By Lesley Vos
Rie Kudan, a Japanese author, has been awarded one of Japan’s most prestigious literary awards for her novel “The Tokyo Tower of Sympathy,” a work partially composed with the assistance of artificial intelligence
During the award ceremony, Kudan made a surprising confession about her novel. She revealed that “about five percent” of it was composed using ChatGPT
The judging committee was highly impressed with Kudan’s work, praising it as “flawless” and difficult to find any faults in. Judge Shuichi Yoshida described the novel as both “highly entertaining and interesting”, sparking a debate on how to consider AI-assisted literary works.