Rei Kudan, Akutagawa Prize Winner, Reveals 5 Percent of Novel Written by AI

Rei Kudan, winner of the most prestigious literary award in Japan, revealed that the generative artificial intelligence program “Chat GPT” wrote about 5 percent of her novel about a future climate, considering that it helped her demonstrate her abilities in the field of writing.
Kudan’s latest novel, “Tokyo-to Dojo-to” (meaning “Tower of Mercy in Tokyo”), won the Akutagawa Prize on Wednesday, as the jury considered it “to such a degree of perfection that it is difficult to find any flaw in it.”
But Ri Kudan (33 years old) admitted, during a celebration, that she used “all the capabilities of artificial intelligence to write this book,” explaining that “about 5 percent of the book consists of sentences generated by artificial intelligence,” which she stated verbatim.
Concern is growing in various sectors, including publishing, over the artificial intelligence tool launched in 2022, which can produce texts on demand in a few seconds.
Artificial intelligence is a recurring theme in Kudan’s book, set in a futuristic Tokyo, about a tower-shaped prison designed by an architect troubled by society’s over-tolerance.
Kudan noted that she is constantly having conversations with the AI ​​tool, telling it her very private thoughts that she cannot “talk about with anyone else,” adding that GBT Chat’s responses sometimes inspired dialogue in the novel.
She explained that she wants to maintain “good relations” with artificial intelligence and “unleash its creativity.”
The organization responsible for the Akutagawa Prize did not want to comment on these statements.