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【“创”吧】莫言：给余华的颁奖词想不出来，最后ChatGPT帮我写的

必创头条

2023-05-22

诺贝尔文学奖得主、作家莫言此前就因为“金句频出”，而屡屡登上热搜。如今，他在颁奖礼上跟作家余华的一番对话，再次引发网友们的围观。

Chinese Nobel Prize winner Mo Yan had sought the assistance of ChatGPT for help to write a prize citation for another famous Chinese writer Yu Hua, Mo revealed during the 65th anniversary of the Chinese literary bimonthly magazine Shouhuo (Harvest) in Shanghai on Tuesday.

据《钱江晚报》报道，5月16日，《收获》杂志65周年庆典暨新书发布活动在上海舞蹈中心举行。典礼现场，余华凭借《文城》获得收获文学榜2021年长篇小说榜榜首，莫言是颁奖嘉宾。

Yu Hua, author of two of the most popular modern Chinese literature novels To Live and Brothers, had recently earned the prestigious top prize for the novel ranking in 2021 with his new novel Wen Cheng (The Lost City) published in 2021.

莫言和余华是老朋友了，网络上也流传着两人在访谈节目中的各种玩笑。

Mo Yan shared their long-standing friendship and reminisced about various stories they had experienced together.

在颁奖礼当晚，莫言先卖了个关子：

“这次获奖的是一个了不起的人物，当然了，他也是我的好朋友，他不一般，所以我也不一般。前两天我想我给他颁奖，按照惯例得写一段赞语，我写了好几天也没写出来。我就找了一个博士生，我说你找ChatGPT给我写一个，输入关键词‘活着’‘拔牙’‘文城’，瞬间生成了一篇莎士比亚风格的一千多字的赞语。”

During the ceremony, as an award presenter for Yu, Mo was tasked with delivering a compelling prize citation.

"I spent several days trying to write one but failed, so I asked a PhD student to make ChatGPT write one for me," Mo said, adding that after he put in the key words including "To Live," "extract a tooth" and "Wen Cheng," the chatbot immediately created a prize citation of over 1,000 words, written in a Shakespearean style.

莫言选择的关键词，其实都和余华相关。《活着》是余华的知名作品；“拔牙”则指余华曾经做过的工作，他曾是一名牙医；而《文城》是余华当天的获奖作品。

The reason for Mo to choose the three key phrases is that "To Live" is one of Yu's most famous novels, "extract a tooth" refers to the fact that Yu used to be a dentist before he became a writer, and "Wen Cheng" symbolized Yu's latest novel, which merited the prize at the ceremony.

而在现场谈话环节谈及两位作家之间的“比赛过程”，两位老友再次献上经典对话：

“余华根本不是我的对手，从来没有对我形成威胁。在鲁迅文学院有一段时间，他老在我旁边写东西，笔摩擦纸张的声音太大声了，影响到了我的写作。”

莫言（左）和余华资料图。图源：视觉中国

那么，莫言最后用上这篇颁奖词了吗？在17日晚复旦大学第十一届读书节系列活动上，莫言就回答了ChatGPT写作等问题。说起曾打算用ChatGPT给余华写颁奖词，以及人机协作写作方式的看法，莫言表示，AI的写作就像一盘沙拉，没有独创性，更没有感情色彩。

最终，莫言没有念出来这段颁奖词。他说：“这样的文章，乍一看挺唬人的，但认真读一遍，你就会发现没有一句话是你没听说过的，全都似曾相识，好像好几个人的文章在一块搅和搅和，拌了一盘沙拉一样。没有独创性，更没有感情色彩。”莫言还说，他也让ChatGPT写过七律旧体诗，“感觉没有一句是能够流传下来的，作家和诗人们不要太悲观。至于它以后是否具备创新能力，我对科学的事情也不懂，不好轻易下结论。”