[HIGHLIGHTS] The writer who won the main Japanese literary award with a novel written with support from ChatGPT: “AI helps you compensate for your weaknesses”

Rie Kudan won the Akutagawa Prize, the highest award in Japanese literature, with a book written 5% with ChatGPT. “If you think carefully about how to use it and face your own weaknesses, AI helps you compensate for them,” says the 33-year-old author.

The novel Tokyo To Dojo To (Tokyo's Tower of Compassion, in literal translation) was described by the jury as an “almost perfect narrative”