{
  "id": 11391296,
  "title": "Will AI write our books? Row over bestseller fuels fear over future of literature",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/02/will-ai-write-our-books-row-over-bestseller-fuels-fear-over-future-of",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-02T07:28:03.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "France 24",
    "slug": "france-24",
    "url": "https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/the-debate/20261002-will-ai-write-our-books-row-over-bestseller-fuels-fear-over-future-of-literature"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "France still very much takes its literary prize-giving season seriously. So when a Haitian-born Canadian writer was accused of infusing his best-selling breakout novel with artificial intelligence, it got ugly in a hurry. We wade into the Thélyson Orélien affair with its subsequent accusations of racism, previous plagiarism by the author and doubts over the accuracy of AI verification tool…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}