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Top French literary prize drops best-selling novel over AI claims
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Story by Reuters (CNN) — The organisers of the prestigious Goncourt literary prize said on Friday they had removed a smash-hit novel by Haitian-Canadian author Thelyson Orelien from their longlist after accusations he used AI to write it. Orelien denied using AI to write “C’etait Ca ou Mourir” (“It Was Either…
Celebrated Haitian-Canadian author Thélyson Orélien rejects claims that artificial intelligence helped write his bestselling novel as the debate over AI’s place in literature intensifies.
The turmoil around the book this week underlines the challenge of detecting artificial intelligence, as well as the disruption the technology is causing in the creative industries from music to design and literature.