This week the winner of the Akutagawa Prize was announced here in Japan and Rie Kudan won with a work she admits to using ChatGPT on. She says that “approximately” 5% of the book is lifted verbatim from ChatGPT.
I’m very dismayed by this. I believe it sets a dangerous precedent for future works and possible winners of the prize.
I want to read the book to see if you can tell where the AI written parts are (and apparently AI plays a part in the story itself), but I refuse to buy it new and support that kind of art, so I’m waiting on second-hand copies to go down in price.
What do you all think of this?
English source: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2024/01/19/books/akutagawa-prize-book-chatgpt/
Japanese source: https://www.yomiuri.co.jp/culture/book/articles/20240117-OYT1T50181/
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