aceNovelist accused of using AI to write book removed from French prize list
The organisers of France’s most prestigious literary prize said they had removed a critically acclaimed novel by a Canadian-Haitian writer from the longlist after an anonymous online account claimed the book was “almost entirely” written by AI. The Académie Goncourt, a Paris-based literary organisation, said on Friday its decision to withdraw Thélyson Orélien’s novel C’était ça ou mourir (It Was That or Die) was “driven by the desire to preserve the integrity of the Goncourt prize and the academy itself, whose c…
Questions have been raised over Pangram’s accuracy, and French media outlets have found other AI detection programmes that identified It Was That or Die as very probably written by a human.
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- JournalismThe Guardian2026-09-25
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Truvace Impact Record TRV-2026-1184, v1: “Novelist accused of using AI to write book removed from French prize list.” Truvace, 2026-09-26. /record/TRV-2026-1184 (accessed at citation time). sha256 25eafe60a8d4f80d…
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