A Japanese writer who received an award after spending 2% of ChatGPT uses 95% of ChatGPT in his new book

A Japanese novelist who won the prestigious literary award for her novel using artificial intelligence has released new works. Previously, only 2 percent of ChatGPT was used, 95 percent was used in new works, and the remaining 5 percent was made by herself.

Japan’s NHK said on the 25th, “AI is 95%…”Fiction written by Akutagawa 5 percent will be published in a single magazine,” the daily said. The main character is Club Rie, who won the Akutagawa Prize last year for her work “The Tokyo Metropolitan Government’s Sympathy Tower.” Club Rie said in a press conference last year that she used a sentence made of Generative AI ChatGPT in some of her works. The sentence in question was used by AI to answer questions from characters in the work, which accounted for less than 2 percent of the total volume.

According to the publisher, the judges said, “It was not a question of whether AI was used or not at the time of the screening,” “It is highly complete and difficult to find any shortcomings,” and “It is a very unique work among the recent Akutagawa Prize winners.” As AI-based novels gained popularity, a large advertising company suggested to the author, “Let’s make a work that uses 95 percent of AI this time.” A case in point is Tim Rie’s new novel “Rain of the Shadow.” The novel was written by ChatGPT and 5 percent by the author. “Rain of the Shadow” is a short story about AI left in the world after mankind disappears, exploring “for what is emotion?” while experiencing traces of human memory and emotions.

It is said that AI was responsible for setting the theme and developing the story for the first time, and that the writer gave opinions to AI or instructed its direction to write the story. It took about two weeks to write. “We accepted it as a new challenge, but we are satisfied with the completeness of the novel in the sense that it is a collaboration with generative AI,” Club Rie told NHK. “It was an opportunity to rethink the essential meaning of human imagination.”

EJ SONG

US ASIA JOURNAL