Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Land of Memories

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The result was keep‎. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 01:07, 17 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Land of Memories

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This subject does not meet Wikipedia's notability guideline. Cfls (talk) 00:36, 10 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Science fiction and fantasy, Literature, and China. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 02:19, 10 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Keep per the significant coverage in multiple independent reliable sources. Wikipedia:Notability (books)#Criteria says:
A book is presumed notable if it verifiably meets, through reliable sources, at least one of the following criteria:
1. The book has been the subject of two or more non-trivial published works appearing in sources that are independent of the book itself. This can include published works in all forms, such as newspaper articles, other books, television documentaries, bestseller lists, and reviews. This excludes media re-prints of press releases, flap copy, or other publications where the author, its publisher, agent, or other self-interested parties advertise or speak about the book.
Sources
1. Zhu, Jianhua 朱建华 (2023-10-19). "清华教授用AI创作的科幻作品，参赛并获奖" [Tsinghua Professor's AI-Created Sci-Fi Work Competes and Wins an Award]. Wuhan Evening News [zh] (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 2024-10-10. Retrieved 2024-10-10.
  The article notes: "前后对话66次，清华大学新闻与传播学院教授沈阳利用AI平台创作的科幻作品《机忆之地》（参评时署名“@硅禅”），在第五届江苏省青年科普科幻作品大赛评选中获评二等奖。10月18日中午，本报记者联系上江苏省科普作家协会科幻专委会主任付昌义，他表示，在他的印象中，之前还没有利用AI创作的科幻作品参加比赛并获奖，这是第一次。"
  From Google Translate: "After 66 exchanges of dialogue, Professor Shen Yang from Tsinghua University's School of Journalism and Communication used an AI platform to create the sci-fi work 'Memory Land' (submitted under the name ‘@Silicon Zen’), which won second prize in the fifth Jiangsu Province Youth Science Popularization and Sci-Fi Work Competition. On the afternoon of 18 October, our reporter contacted Fu Changyi, the director of the Sci-Fi Committee of the Jiangsu Provincial Association of Science Writers. He stated that, to his knowledge, this is the first time a sci-fi work created using AI has participated in a competition and won an award."
2. Shen, Zhao 沈昭 (2023-10-22). "AI作家@硅禅的科幻小说得奖了它是怎么写出的获奖作品《机忆之地》？" [AI writer @ Silicon Zen’s science fiction novel won an award. How did it write the award-winning work "The Place of Memories"?]. Yangtse Evening Post (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 2024-10-10. Retrieved 2024-10-10.
  The article notes: "《机忆之地》是清华大学沈阳教授团队使用AICG（人工智能创意生成）创作而成的，小说的标题、配图等内容均由AI生成，在最初提交的时候并没有特意标注出自人工智能之手，和其他人类作者的作品经过层层筛选送到了六位终审评委的面前。这篇小说讲述了一名元宇宙探险家李晓寻找记忆的故事，李晓曾经是一名神经工程师，在一次实验中失去了关于家人的记忆，她对“机忆之地”的传说有了浓厚的兴趣，希望借此找回自己遗失的记忆。"
  From Google Translate: ""The Land of Machine Memories" was created by a team of professors from Shenyang, Tsinghua University, using AICG (artificial intelligence creative generation). The title, illustrations and other content of the novel were all generated by AI. When it was initially submitted, it was not specifically marked as being produced by artificial intelligence. The works of other human authors were screened and sent to the six final judges. This novel tells the story of Li Xiao, a metaverse explorer who searches for memories. Li Xiao was once a neuroengineer who lost the memory of her family during an experiment. She became familiar with the legend of the "Land of Machine Memories". I have a strong interest in it, hoping to retrieve my lost memory."
3. Wang, Tingsu 王亭苏 (2023-10-24). He, Rui 何睿 (ed.). "AI小说获科幻奖，人工智能时代文学如何自处？" [AI novel wins science fiction award. How should literature fare in the era of artificial intelligence?]. The Beijing News (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 2024-10-10. Retrieved 2024-10-10 – via Sohu.
  The article notes: "据报道，一本名为《机忆之地》的小说，于近日在江苏青年科普科幻作品大赛中获得了二等奖。随后，清华大学新闻学院教授沈阳在其个人社交账号上发布消息，称这篇小说从笔名、标题、正文到配图，“100%的内容都是AI写的”。"
  From Google Translate: "According to reports, a novel titled "The Land of Machine Memories" recently won the second prize in the Jiangsu Youth Popular Science Science Fiction Competition. Subsequently, Shen Yang, a professor at the School of Journalism at Tsinghua University, posted on his personal social account that "100% of the content of this novel was written by AI" from the pen name, title, text to illustrations."
4. Lalonde, Catherine (2024-01-08). "A literary prize for an artificial writer". Le Devoir. Archived from the original on 2024-10-10. Retrieved 2024-10-10.
  The article notes: "“At the edge of the metaverse lies the Land of Memories, a forbidden realm from which humans are excluded.” So begins The Land of Memories , a prize-winning short story at the fifth Jiangsu Science Fiction Literary Competition. The text was generated by Shen Yang, professor emeritus at the School of Journalism at Tsinghua University in Beijing, using artificial intelligence (AI). ... Mr. Shen worked with the AI for three hours, giving it 66 commands, to get a rough draft of 43,000 characters. The professor then cut, sculpted and refined this first draft, to arrive at a manuscript of some 6,000 Chinese characters, Land of Memories ( also translated by some media as Land of Machine Memory )."
5. Chik, Holly (2023-12-20). "A Chinese professor used AI to write a science fiction novel. Then it was a winner in a national competition". South China Morning Post. Archived from the original on 2023-12-22. Retrieved 2024-10-10.
  The article notes: "When a professor at Beijing’s Tsinghua University set out to write a science fiction novel about the metaverse and humanoid robots, he turned to artificial intelligence for inspiration. The AI ended up generating his entire book – which then took out a national science fiction award honour. The nearly 6,000-character Chinese-language novel Land of Memories, by Shen Yang, a professor at the university’s school of journalism and communication, was among the winners of the Jiangsu Youth Popular Science Science Fiction Competition, Jinan Times, a newspaper in Shandong province reported. ... The story centres on a metaverse explorer named Li Xiao, who used to be a neural engineer in the real world. After accidentally losing all memories of her family during an experiment, she becomes interested in the legend of the Land of Memories, and hopes that her lost memories can be retrieved in the metaverse."
There is sufficient coverage in reliable sources to allow Land of Memories (simplified Chinese: 机忆之地; traditional Chinese: 機憶之地) to pass Wikipedia:Notability#General notability guideline, which requires "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject".
Cunard (talk) 06:42, 10 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: Pinging Piotrus (talk · contribs), who created the article but was not notified of the AfD nomination. Cunard (talk) 06:44, 10 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks. That might warrant a procedural keep, but certainly it warrants regular one given sources you found. So, anyway, Keep for me, of course. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 06:47, 10 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Added. First time making a deletion of article proposal. Not too familiar with the procedure. Thanks for reminding. Cfls (talk) 14:10, 10 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: The novel has received sufficient news coverage. Toughpigs (talk) 14:56, 10 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: The Devoir and South China Morning Post reviews are solid, unsure about the reliability of the Chinese sources, but put together, it should pass notability for literary works. Oaktree b (talk) 15:40, 10 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: For a book or novel it is very short, almost the length of a long essay. Vacosea (talk) 20:49, 15 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.