aceNew prize launches for books co-written with AI
A prize for AI-written books has launched this week. The Prix Pascal de Littérature IA invites submissions of manuscripts co-written with AI tools, with the winner promised publication. Entrants are asked to submit an unpublished manuscript of between 10,000 and 50,000 words, along with information about which AI model and prompt were used to generate the text. All major language models are allowed, including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and LLaMA. Entrants can be based anywhere, but entries must be submitted in Fren…
A new prize gives authors who use AI tools an openly sanctioned route to publication, with the winner promised publication and the AI model and prompts disclosed.
The jury is not yet announced, and the article does not explain how submissions will be assessed, so how AI-assisted work will be evaluated remains unresolved.
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- JournalismThe Guardian2026-10-21
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