AI Novels Sweep Japan's Sei Shōnagon Award, Winning Three of Four Prizes

Three of the four winning entries in one of Japan's most prestigious literary awards were AI-generated, prompting discussion of a separate human-only category.

AI-generated novels dominated the latest Sei Shōnagon Award (星新一賞), one of Japan's most respected literary prizes for short fiction. As @nikkei reported, three of the four winning works were classified as "AI novels," a result that has sparked serious discussion about whether the competition needs a separate category for human-authored work.

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