In January 2024, Rie Qudan won Japan¡¯s most prestigious prize for early and mid-career writers, widely seen as the country¡¯s literary kingmaker. At the press conference, where she accepted the Akutagawa Prize for her novel ¡°Sympathy Tower Tokyo,¡± Qudan made an unthinkable admission to the press and literati: She had used AI to write it.
Throughout ¡°Sympathy Tower Tokyo,¡± the narrator converses with a chatbot and the author said she took the bot¡¯s half of the dialogue directly from chatGPT, accounting for about 5% of the novel¡¯s total text.
¡°This novel really started with chatGPT,¡± Qudan national broadcaster NHK, saying she made ¡°full use¡± of the LLM (large language model) bot to conceive the story.
With your current subscription plan you can comment on stories. However, before writing your first comment, please create a display name in the Profile section of your subscriber account page.