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record: TRV-2026-2107
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timestamp: 2026-10-21T18:12:02.890697Z
status: published
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sector: entertainment
headline: New prize launches for books co-written with AI
dek: 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 Entrants are asked to submit an unpublished manuscript of between 10,000 and 50,000 words, along with information about which AI model and prompt were used to generate the text.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…
gain_title: 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.
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gain_reading: 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.
gain_evidence: invites submissions of manuscripts co-written with AI tools, with the winner promised publication | along with information about which AI model and prompt were used to generate the text
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quick_read: The Prix Pascal de Littérature IA opened for entries this week, inviting French-language fiction manuscripts of 10,000 to 50,000 words that were co-written with AI tools. Entrants must disclose the model and prompt used, and any major language model is permitted.

The prize arrives after months of dispute over suspected AI use by finalists and winners of other literary awards, so it offers a transparent alternative to undisclosed use. The article does not say how entries will be judged on literary merit versus AI contribution, and the jury has not yet been named.
limitation: 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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key_points: Manuscripts must be unpublished, between 10,000 and 50,000 words, and written in French. | ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and LLaMA are among the permitted models. | Applications close at the end of November, with a shortlist of 10 and a winner announced in early December. | The founders are technology entrepreneurs, not established literary figures. | Entries are asked to help solve an ethical, social or ecological problem threatening humanity.
rundown: The prize is named after Blaise Pascal, the French polymath who helped invent an early mechanical calculator and wrote theological texts including Pensées. It was founded by Philippe Rodriguez, Albin Serviant and Gilles Mentré.

Rodriguez is a founding partner at an advisory firm, Serviant is a digital media entrepreneur, and Mentré is a former civil servant who teaches and co-founded an online voting platform. Applications opened on Tuesday via the prize website.

The launch follows controversy this year over possible AI use at the Commonwealth short story prize, the Caine prize and the Prix Goncourt. The jury of five or six writers, critics, journalists, philosophers and publishers will be announced in early November.
sources:
- journalism | The Guardian | https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/oct/21/new-prize-launches-books-co-written-with-ai-france | 2026-10-21
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