It is 6000 Chinese characters long, cut down from a “draft of 43,000 characters generated in just three hours with 66 prompts.”
It looks like it one a “level-two” prize for the “Youth Science Education and Science Fiction Competition”. IDK if that means the competition was for Chinese YA sci-fi, but it kind of feels like it. 3⁄6 judges approved the work. One judge recognized it was written by AI and didn’t vote for it. Another judge was informed according to the article, but not the Wikipedia page. The organizer said it wasn’t bad but didn’t develop well and wouldn’t have met the standards for publication. He plans to allow AI-generated content in 2024.
The novel was among 18 submissions that won the level-two prize at the Fifth Jiangsu Youth Science Education and Science Fiction Competition (第五届江苏省青年科普科幻作品大赛). The contest was restricted to participants between the age of 14 and 45 but did not forbid entries generated by AI. One of its organizers reached out to Shen after finding out that the professor had been experimenting with writing science fiction using AI. The judges were not told about the novel’s origin at the time. Three of them, out of the six, approved the work. One judge, who had worked with AI models before, recognized that the novel was written by AI and criticized the work for lacking emotional appeal. The organizer who had contacted Shen said the novel’s introduction was not bad but the story did not develop well. It would not meet standards for publication. However, he still plans to allow AI-generated submissions in 2024.[3][1]
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Among the judges, only one was notified that Shen had used AI in his work, according to the report. But another judge, who had been exploring AI content creation, recognised that Shen’s work was AI-generated. The judge said he did not vote for the submission because it was not up to standard and “lacked emotion”.
It looks like it one a “level-two” prize for the “Youth Science Education and Science Fiction Competition”. IDK if that means the competition was for Chinese YA sci-fi, but it kind of feels like it. 3⁄6 judges approved the work. One judge recognized it was written by AI and didn’t vote for it. Another judge was informed according to the article, but not the Wikipedia page. The organizer said it wasn’t bad but didn’t develop well and wouldn’t have met the standards for publication. He plans to allow AI-generated content in 2024.
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From the article: