{"id":19803,"date":"2025-08-18T11:37:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T09:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/18\/author-rie-qudan-why-i-used-chatgpt-to-write-my-prize-winning-novel\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T11:37:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T09:37:16","slug":"author-rie-qudan-why-i-used-chatgpt-to-write-my-prize-winning-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/18\/author-rie-qudan-why-i-used-chatgpt-to-write-my-prize-winning-novel\/","title":{"rendered":"Author Rie Qudan: Why I used ChatGPT to write my prize-winning novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sympathy Tower Tokyo attracted controversy for being partly written using AI. Does its author think the technology could write a better novel than a human?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t feel particularly unhappy about my work being used to train AI,\u201d says Japanese novelist Rie Qudan. \u201cEven if it is copied, I feel confident there\u2019s a part of me that will remain, which nobody can copy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 34-year old author is talking to\u00a0me via Zoom from her home near Tokyo, ahead of the publication of the\u00a0English-language translation of her fourth novel, Sympathy Tower Tokyo<em>.<\/em> The book attracted controversy in Japan when it won a prestigious prize, despite being partly written by\u00a0ChatGPT.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2025\/aug\/18\/author-rie-qudan-why-i-used-chatgpt-to-write-my-prize-winning-novel\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/1345bfd32012bcd96ba1c3f0aaa16e85bd684b38\/656_1228_2119_1693\/master\/2119.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=4ac2676f4f4585b1e9c0077dafa8480f\" title=\"Author Rie Qudan: Why I used ChatGPT to write my prize-winning novel\" \/>Sympathy Tower Tokyo attracted controversy for being partly written using AI. Does its author think the technology could write a better novel than a human?<br \/>\n\u201cI don\u2019t feel particularly unhappy about my work being used to train AI,\u201d says Japanese novelist Rie Qudan. \u201cEven if it is copied, I feel confident there\u2019s a part of me that will remain, which nobody can copy.\u201d<br \/>\nThe 34-year old author is talking to\u00a0me via Zoom from her home near Tokyo, ahead of the publication of the\u00a0English-language translation of her fourth novel, Sympathy Tower Tokyo. The book attracted controversy in Japan when it won a prestigious prize, despite being partly written by\u00a0ChatGPT. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sympathy Tower Tokyo attracted controversy for being partly written using AI. Does its author think the technology could write a better novel than a human? \u201cI don\u2019t feel particularly unhappy about my work being used to train AI,\u201d says Japanese novelist Rie Qudan. \u201cEven if it is copied, I feel confident there\u2019s a part of &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/18\/author-rie-qudan-why-i-used-chatgpt-to-write-my-prize-winning-novel\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Author Rie Qudan: Why I used ChatGPT to write my prize-winning novel<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19803"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}