AI-Generated Novel Wins Chinese Competition
The Jinan Times reports that the AI-generated novel Land of Memories by Shen Yang was a winner of the Jiangsu Youth Popular Science Science Fiction Competition, held by the Jiangsu Science Writers Association. The competition rules did not ban the use of artificial intelligence, and the novel was awarded second place.
The text of the novel was written entirely by AI, with some editing by Yang. Competition judges reported mixed opinions on the novel’s quality, and at least one easily recognized the prose as being machine-generated.
Shen has stated that he plans to make public the process he used to generate the novel so that others may follow his lead.
For more information, see the story from the South China Morning Post.
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