Novelist admits using ChatGPT in award-winning book
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Rie Kudan, the latest winner of Japan's esteemed Akutagawa Prize, has confessed to using AI-generated text in her novel, The Tokyo Tower of Sympathy. After winning the award, Kudan revealed that she "made active use of generative AI like ChatGPT in writing this book," with about 5% of the novel containing AI-generated sentences. This disclosure has ignited a debate about the role of generative AI in the arts and questions about authorship.