Author Of One Of France’s Biggest Hit Novels Of The Year Accused Of Using AI
Grasset says it has absolute confidence in Thélyson Orélien as the novel’s sales pass 35,000 and prize juries weigh it for major awards.
- A Goncourt finalist, the novel faces accusations of being AI-written after Pangram claimed testing the manuscript obtained "the same result: 100% AI," sparking debate across France.
- On Monday 21 September, an anonymous account posted claims the book was produced by artificial intelligence, and the account has since gained more than 6,600 followers.
- Grasset defended the author, expressing "their absolute confidence" against any attempt to "measure, standardise or silence writing that is forever free," while the author cited a Haitian and Caribbean literary tradition.
- Late in the evening, the five people behind the account posted a message calling to "go easy on the attacks against" the author, acknowledging "there is a non-zero chance" he is acting in good faith.
- While Pangram claims a "false-positive rate of 0.0041%," the novel continues to sell more than 35,000 copies and remains a finalist for The Goncourt, with prizes to be announced on Tuesday 3 November.
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Author Of One Of France’s Biggest Hit Novels Of The Year Accused Of Using AI
C’était ça ou mourir (It Was That Or Die) by Thélyson Orélien has sold over 35,000 copies and been hailed in France’s literary mediasphere as a revelation. On Monday, an anonymous X (Twitter) account claimed the AI-spotting software Pangram found that “this novel was written almost entirely by an artificial intelligence.” – Euronews
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The AI has unexpectedly slipped into the race for the achievement of the Goncourt award, the most prestigious award of French letters. On the 21st, an anonymous account in X, Balance ton Claude, published a message in which it was stated that much of the fragments of one of the candidate works, 'C'etait ca ou mourir' (It was that or die), of the Haitian-Canadian author Thélyson Orélien, were the work of artificial intelligence.
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