news Writer won a prestigiuos literary award in Japan confesses: ChatGPT wrote parts of it

[vale9001]

 

 

 

fter Japanese author Rie Kudan won one of the country’s most prestigious literary awards, she admitted she’d had help from an unusual source — ChatGPT.

“I plan to continue to profit from the use of AI in the writing of my novels, while letting my creativity express itself to the fullest,” said the 33-year-old, who was awarded the Akutagawa Prize for the best work of fiction by a promising new writer on Wednesday.

 

 

The author then confirmed at a press conference that around 5% of her book “The Tokyo Tower of Sympathy” — which was lauded by committee members as “practically flawless” — was word-for-word generated by AI.

 

 

Last year, Berlin-based photographer Boris Eldagsen withdrew from the Sony World Photography Awards after revealing his winning entry in the creative photo category was created using the technology.

Meanwhile, authors like George R. R. Martin, Jodi Picoult and John Grisham joined a class action lawsuit against OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, last year, saying it used copyrighted work while training its systems to create more human-like responses.

 

 

Some on social media expressed interest in Kudan’s creative use of AI and said they were now more interested in her work, others called it “disrespectful” to other authors who wrote without the help of the technology.

 

 

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/01/19/style/rie-kudan-akutagawa-prize-chatgpt/index.html

 

[playboi]

 Ahead of the curve

 

anti AI-reactionaries losing once again 

[May]

if she says 5% then guarantee it’s actually more like 30%, i use AI in my work and i admit it but downplay it too  

 

good for her tho

[vale9001]

anyways most writers, I think even awarded ones and not only best sellers writers, have other people writing some of the "boring parts" and people making most of the researches they need. If you have to write the part of a battle in a war you don't make months of research about that battle or in general how a battle works in a context, just to write 2 pages in a novel is a romantic novel and only need that part about wars. They have ghost writers for that.

So nothing new from this point of view.

 

 

[Illuminati]

I applaud the honesty I guess. AI in its most primitive form as an infinite inspiration box has definitely been in use far more than most people would admit

[Miracle]

I'm pro using AI as a tool. It can be another tool for writing, much like research, brainstorming, etc

 

AI can help people with an amazing story + amazing characters + amazing depth surpass some of the obstacles that come with writing a full novel

 

 

[Miss Show Business]

1 hour ago, Miracle said:

I'm pro using AI as a tool. It can be another tool for writing, much like research, brainstorming, etc

 

AI can help people with an amazing story + amazing characters + amazing depth surpass some of the obstacles that come with writing a full novel

 

 

MTE - I think using it to improve what you've already written makes it a great tool. The thing with AI is you have to back check your sources as sometimes it gives you inaccurate info, but that's the whole point of using it for a project - you're supposed to do things like that anyway.

 

I'm pro writers using AI as a tool, I'm anti studios using it to replace writers and getting a poor output with no human oversight.

[Cruel Summer]

This is profoundly disrespectful of the medium and she should be stripped of any associated awards and recognition. Any piece of this story that was created by AI is not her own creativity, and may well be based on other people’s hard work through the training data used to create the model - people who will never be compensated for their contributions to her work. 
 

AI is not as simple a tool as a search engine, and it is not comparable to a compensated human person as a ghost writer. This is directly feeding into a path straight to a literary market where instead of AI being used for pieces of a story by an author, it instead generates entire novels at the behest of publishers and large corporations, erasing a major creative outlet as a viable career path for real people.

 

It feels just… so wrong to do this. I would never think to have AI write for me and then pass it off as my own work until I’ve already sold copies and received awards. That’s almost a bigger issue than doing it in the first place - if you say up front that you used AI tools to help write your book, at least consumers can choose not to engage with something they believe is wrong. Announcing it after it’s all said and done is deceitful.

[Dancehall Queen]

1 minute ago, Cruel Summer said:

This is profoundly disrespectful of the medium and she should be stripped of any associated awards and recognition. Any piece of this story that was created by AI is not her own creativity, and may well be based on other people’s hard work through the training data used to create the model - people who will never be compensated for their contributions to her work. 
 

AI is not as simple a tool as a search engine, and it is not comparable to a compensated human person as a ghost writer. This is directly feeding into a path straight to a literary market where instead of AI being used for pieces of a story by an author, it instead generates entire novels at the behest of publishers and large corporations, erasing a major creative outlet as a viable career path for real people.

 

It feels just… so wrong to do this. I would never think to have AI write for me and then pass it off as my own work until I’ve already sold copies and received awards. That’s almost a bigger issue than doing it in the first place - if you say up front that you used AI tools to help write your book, at least consumers can choose not to engage with something they believe is wrong. Announcing it after it’s all said and done is deceitful.

How much of this post was ai? 

[MattieB]

oh here go hell come

[MatiRod]

Despite all this, I still haven't heard a fully A.I.-generated song that sounds truly believable. Music seems to be beyond its capabilities... for now.

[poki]

We already went over the clickbait title on Reddit.

AI is a main topic of the book. 

 

And just so you know, auto correct and auto complete are also AI. AI has existed since the dawn of video games. When you see an enemy try to attack you in a video game, or you create sims in The Sims, that's AI. 

 

It's just that now the public has easy access to AI. 

Edited January 20 by Hey Dude

[John Slayne]

21 hours ago, Cruel Summer said:

This is profoundly disrespectful of the medium and she should be stripped of any associated awards and recognition. Any piece of this story that was created by AI is not her own creativity, and may well be based on other people’s hard work through the training data used to create the model - people who will never be compensated for their contributions to her work. 
 

AI is not as simple a tool as a search engine, and it is not comparable to a compensated human person as a ghost writer. This is directly feeding into a path straight to a literary market where instead of AI being used for pieces of a story by an author, it instead generates entire novels at the behest of publishers and large corporations, erasing a major creative outlet as a viable career path for real people.

 

It feels just… so wrong to do this. I would never think to have AI write for me and then pass it off as my own work until I’ve already sold copies and received awards. That’s almost a bigger issue than doing it in the first place - if you say up front that you used AI tools to help write your book, at least consumers can choose not to engage with something they believe is wrong. Announcing it after it’s all said and done is deceitful.

Yeah I'm really trying not to be an anti-AI boomer, but I do think you raised some valid points. As a person who's always enjoyed writing and hopes to publish a book one day, this does actually make me anxious about the industry.