TOKYO, January 18 This year's winner of Japan's most prestigious literary prize, the Akutagawa Prize, 33-year-old Rie Kudan admitted that about 5% of the sentences in her winning novel «Tokyo Girl» «Tokyo-to Dojo-to» («Sympathy Tower Tokyo») were generated by artificial intelligence and included in the text without changes.
«»This novel was written using artificial intelligence technologies for text generation, such as ChatGPT. About, perhaps, 5% of the sentences that were in the text were generated by artificial intelligence and used without changes. In the future, I would also like to continue to use technologies that so that, using them, you can further develop your creativity,” the author noted.
A recording of Rie Kudan's press conference is available on Nippon TV's Youtube channel.
The writer was born on September 27, 1990 in Saitama Prefecture. This is her second nomination for the prestigious Akutagawa Prize. The first was in 2021 with the novel “Schoolgirl”.
According to media reports, the winning novel «Tokyo Tower of Sympathy» takes place in the future, where a skyscraper tower is being built in a Tokyo park in Shinjuku, designed to comfortably house criminals based on the theory that «criminals are people, who deserve sympathy.» The novel tells the story of a female architect who is dissatisfied with such tolerance of society and the increasing presence of generative artificial intelligence technologies.