The Japanese Rie Qudan used artificial intelligence for her award-winning novel “Tokyo-to Dojo-to” and there was great excitement. A conversation with the writer about art and originality.
When the Japanese author Rie Qudan received the Akutagawa Prize, Japan’s most prestigious literary prize, a few days ago, what was reported was not about her work, but about the fact that she freely admitted that she had used Chat GPT for about five percent of her most recent novel. The question that media around the world then asked was: Is this okay? So I asked 33-year-old Rie Qudan.