Writing & publishing AI-assisted
Sympathy Tower Tokyo
The novel that won Japan's Akutagawa Prize, after which its author said about five percent of the text was taken verbatim from ChatGPT.
Where the human came in
Kudan wrote a book about a society that leans on AI and used the model's replies as the voice of that society; the judges called the novel practically flawless.
Why it is not slop
The machine's text is in the book because the book is about the machine. Disclosed by the author at the ceremony, not discovered later.
Seed entry: written from public sources and awaiting editorial review.