Weird framing she wasn't accused of anything but rather volunteered the fact. I think the controversy is somewhat overblown here; collaboration and collage aren't unusual in Japanese arts. Look at manga, where a lot of backgrounds/props are literally pasted in rather than drawn from scratch.
> Some observers noted that Kudan's book contains sections that are meant to be responses generated by an AI, and argued that if ChatGPT was responsible for those portions of the book, that would be more defensible.
