In Japan, the novel of the year was written by artificial intelligence (7 photos)

It turns out that a girl named Rie Kudan wrote her novel using an artificial intelligence text generator. What a scandal erupted when her book Tokyo-do Dojo-to received the 170th Akutagawa Prize for Emerging Authors, and then the truth was revealed!





What is this novel about?

The title of the book is translated as “Tower of Sympathy Tokyo.” And the 33-year-old Rie revealed the near future of the capital, where all areas of life are now regulated by artificial intelligence.



I generated this art for the article using AI for the request “the book was written by artificial intelligence”

The main character asks questions to the AI of the future under the fictitious name OpenAI.

Is there already a hint that the book will be related to AI? But the Japanese did not expect SUCH a setup. Although the writer herself claims that she took only about 5% of the text directly from the generator. These are, in fact, AI responses to character requests.

To pacify the public, one member of the literary prize committee, writer Shuichi Yoshida, said that this was logical. “That artificial intelligence is just another character in this book.”





And then we will make books so that the AI has something to read and so that it does not get bored

Didn't help smooth out the scandal

This is an interesting discussion, because there were not only fierce opponents, but also defenders of such a move.

The biggest problem with generative AI is that a person does not need to understand the subject or literature for the AI to create the text for him. He is not even able to fully appreciate and understand the value of some proposals. Whether they are good or bad.



This is the insidious person who has alarmed the literary world

One of the chief editors of the competition said that although the prize will not be withdrawn this time, this precedent has already influenced the rules for the next competition. Most likely, texts from the AI will be vetoed.

- It is difficult to determine where the real author is and where the machine one is. Therefore, some viewers may feel deceived if they find out about this at the very end. And this will turn them away from reading.



If you train an AI on ethics books, will it be able to draw ethical conclusions?

Some awards already have bans on the use of AI. For example, in the award for the best science fiction book by Hoshi Shinichi. You can take parts of the text only with significant changes and reworking of sentences.

That is, in essence, you can take an idea, but you have to write it yourself.

The sudden discovery that the best book of the year contains many pages from AI has given rise to a host of ethical discussions. After all, a computer has no ethics, and will the text from it be not just “chewing gum”, but at least something morally filled?



Do you have interesting chat conversations? I write terrible banalities about important questions.

I believe that AI should not be allowed. Whenever I ask the GPT chat really difficult questions, it refuses to answer or spits out terribly vulgar banalities.

Many developers themselves have imposed moral boundaries on AI and prohibitions on discussing ethical topics. And without this, no book will work, only “content”. And such books cannot compete for the title of the best.



People in Japan love to read "light novels"

Although the girl is great for so gracefully forcing all competitions to make a firm decision by next year and change the rules. I think AI will be banned from books. What do you think?