Robots writing science fiction

See AI-generated science fiction novel wins literary prize in China by Justinas Vainilavičius of cybernews.com. Excerpts:

"It only took three hours for Shen Yang, a professor at the Beijing-based university’s School of Journalism and Communication, to generate the award-winning admission.

The Chinese-language work, entitled The Land of Machine Memories, won second prize at the 5th Jiangsu Popular Science and Science Fiction Competition."

"the draft of over 40,000 characters was generated based on 66 prompts, suggesting a “Kafkaesque” writing style."

"The protagonist of The Land of Machine Memory is a metaverse adventurer called Li Xiao, who is on a quest to retrieve the lost memories from her real-world life as a neural engineer.

Shen submitted the work under the pseudonym, the only contestant to do so. Three of the six judges voted in favor of the manuscript, which secured it a second prize honor."

"According to Shen, his entire competition entry was generated by AI, including the outline of the novel, the illustrations, and even his pen name, which translates as @SiliconZen."

"In April, a Berlin-based photographer won the Sony World Photography Awards with an AI-generated image, only to reject the prize."

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