The Algorithm Didn’t Kill Art — It Just Exposed the Truth

When an AI-written novel hit #1 in Japan, writers panicked. Entrepreneurs should take notes.

AI didn’t kill creativity. The algorithm did.

Last week, an AI-written romance novel hit #1 on Japan’s biggest fiction platform, Kakuyomu.

Not because it was good.
Because it was fast.

The author used AI to pump out 100,000 characters a day—so much content, so quickly, it exploited Kakuyomu’s algorithm, which rewards frequent updates, total page views, and …