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ChatGPT: in China
In the South China Morning Post Stephen Chen reports that ‘Somebody may call the police’: Chinese Nobel Prize winner Mo Yan turns to ChatGPT to beat writer’s block.
He used it in writing a commendation for fellow author Yu Hua --:
But he stressed that he had written all of his novels himself and said he was likely to continue doing so because he enjoyed the power of writing.Interestingly, quite a bit of discussion in the article is about the fact that ChatGPT isn't freely accessible in China:
OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT, has not yet made the service available in China. Some commenters said it was possible Mo had violated OpenAI’s terms of service by using the platform in China, and they warned this could result in legal action being taken against him by OpenAI. The Post has reached out to OpenAI for comment.
The Chinese government has also banned the use of VPN software, which is needed to access ChatGPT from China, as a means of controlling access to information deemed inappropriate or sensitive. If Mo Yan or his student were caught using a VPN to access ChatGPT, they could face penalties such as fines or imprisonment.
At The Hindu Sahana Venugopal takes a stab at Writing award-winning Indian fiction with ChatGPT.
HarperCollins India CEO Ananth Padmanabhan was open to the AI-generated query letters (or at least the first: "if you saw the two emails that you sent, they have the same structure" ...), while literary agent Kanishka Gupta was more dismissive:
He declared the two storylines were “absolute rubbish,” and said they were full of cliched phrases, while regurgitating the plot lines of other published novels.(I suspect that many human-written queries are also: "full of cliched phrases, while regurgitating the plot lines of other published novels".)
“I’m not going to read these books,” Mr. Gupta said simply.
Gupta did say: "if I get some AI-generated query letter which reads like a query letter written by an actual author and it’s creative enough, then I might invite the full manuscript".
The future isn't quite here, but, damn, it's coming fast and hard.
