Dear MEL Topic Readers,
The winner of a prestigious Japanese literary award has confirmed AI
helped write her book
The Akutagawa Prize is a prestigious biannual Japanese literacy award.
On January 17, the winner of the 170th award was given to a work by
a 33-year-old Japanese writer. The committee members praised the work as practically
flawless. After the award was given, the writer admitted that she had done her
work with help from ChatGPT, and around 5% of the work was taken straight from
the generative AI. This might please Sam Altman, CEO of Open AI but worry other
writers as their previous works might have contributed to the award without
their consent. In fact, many written works have been used to train Large Language
Models (LLM), very large deep learning models that are pre-trained on vast amounts
of data. Nowadays, most writers of any field get help from artificial intelligence,
but using generative AI’s response word-for-word is not widely regarded as one’s
own creative work, at least in academic writing. Also, if the judges of the award
had known that some part of the work had been taken straight from generative
AI, would they have awarded the work? Such arguments could be brought up only when
the creator admitted how much they used AI for their work. Whichever the case
might be, her award-winning work “The Tokyo Tower of Sympathy” is going to be a
million-seller book. Will readers care who or what wrote the work?
Read the article and learn about how generative AI helped win a prestigious
literary award.
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