aceWinner of the Prix Goncourt literary prize admits to using AI
The winner of France’s most prestigious literary prize has admitted using artificial intelligence while writing his novel, barely a day after collecting an award whose jury had thrown out another book over suspected AI use. Philippe Jaenada, who won the Prix Goncourt on Tuesday for L’Inconnue du quai de Javel (The Unknown Woman of the Quai de Javel), told France Inter radio on Wednesday that he had turned to AI “three times” while writing it. The first, he said, was to slip in a sentence written by ChatGPT in or…
France's Académie Goncourt removed Thélyson Orélien's novel, which had sold more than 35,000 copies, over suspected AI generation, and his publisher Boréal dropped him; the next prize winner then admitted using ChatGPT three times, drawing accusations of a double standard.
The accuracy of AI-detection software has been called into question, and the academy's finding on Orélien's book rested partly on such analysis.
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- JournalismThe Guardian2026-11-05
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