Author accused of using AI to write award-winning novel
Haitian-Canadian author Thélyson Orélien is accused of using AI to write his award-winning novel, an allegation he and his publisher strongly deny. Read More: https://punchng.com/author-accused-of-using-ai-to-write-award-winning-novel/
Thélyson Orélien, a Haitian-Canadian author who won the prestigious Prix du Roman Fnac for his debut novel C’était ça ou mourir (It Was Either That or Die), is facing allegations that he used artificial intelligence to write the majority of the book. The claim was made by an X account called Balance ton Claude, which used an AI-detection tool called Pangram to test several passages from the novel and found a 100 percent chance that they were generated by AI.
Orélien, 38, denies the allegations, calling them an attack on his work and expressing his desire to compile a dossier with his French and Canadian publishers to prove that he wrote the novel himself. His French publisher, Grasset, also defended him, describing the allegations as "atrociously injurious" and stating that his work is original and powerful.
The controversy comes as Orélien's book gains recognition in France, earning him final nominations for the prestigious Goncourt and Renaudot prizes.
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