List of literary award winning works created with AI
She consulted its output for the replies written by the AI inside the novel. The prize stood. 🇨🇳 Short story The Land of Machine Memories by Shen Yang, writing as “QuartZen” — 5th Youth Popular Science and Science Fiction Competition, Second Prize, 2023 AI generated the title, prose, illustrations, and pen name over 66 rounds of prompting. The organizer invited Shen and hid the experiment from the judges.
- ▪She consulted its output for the replies written by the AI inside the novel.
- ▪The prize stood. 🇨🇳 Short story The Land of Machine Memories by Shen Yang, writing as “QuartZen” — 5th Youth Popular Science and Science Fiction Competition, Second Prize, 2023 AI generated the title, prose, illustrations, and pen name ov
- ▪The organizer invited Shen and hid the experiment from the judges.
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| Original publisher | Jamesyu |
| Canonical URL | https://jamesyu.org/award-winning-ai-literature/ |
| Publication time | Thu, 06 Aug 2026 15:17:39 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-08-06T15:20:42.047Z |
| Last seen | 2026-08-06T15:20:42.047Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | VagoMnJmga0R · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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Award-Winning AI Literature This a list of literary awards granted to works where AI was used (or was suspected) as part of the writing process 24 cases Confirmed AI use: 3 (12.5%) AI was allowed from the start: 7 (29.2%) Organizers said AI was used: 2 (8.3%) Suspected or disputed: 6 (25.0%) Nominations and shortlists withdrawn: 3 (12.5%) Near-misses and eligibility cases: 3 (12.5%) CONFIRMED AI USE 🇯🇵 Novel Sympathy Tower Tokyo by Rie Kudan — 170th Akutagawa Prize, 2024 Kudan first guessed that about 5% of the novel involved ChatGPT, then gave a much smaller figure: about one page out of 143. She consulted its output for the replies written by the AI inside the novel. The prize stood.
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