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Goncourt drops novel over plagiarism

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Haitian-Canadian author Thélyson Orélien denied using artificial intelligence to write his novel and acknowledged earlier plagiarism after it was dropped from France’s Goncourt shortlist.

Der Standard
Author Orélien denies AI accusations and acknowledges earlier plagiarism

No sentence from his bestseller "C'était ça ou mourir" was created by a machine — the book was removed from the Prix Goncourt shortlist

Author Orélien denies AI accusations and acknowledges earlier plagiarism
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Helsingin Sanomat
Literature | Bestselling author accused of using AI: Not a single sentence has been written by the machine

Thélyson Orélien's debut novel is set to be published in Finnish in April.

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ABC
The Goncourt candidate accused of writing with AI: "It's cruel, they cast doubt on my humanity"

The writer Thélyson Orélien insisted this Tuesday that 'none of the phrases' in his novel C'était ça ou mourir ('That was this or dying') were written with AI. But he did acknowledge having copied some poems at the start of the past decade, when he began his literary career in Canada. In a statement released to the Agence France-Presse (AFP), he apologized for those 'unacceptable youth errors' he committed when he copied passages from some poems by well-known writers. 'I deeply regret it and I apologize for it,' he added in that statement. The Haitian-Canadian author has sent the statement to AFP after several weeks in the spotlight of a major literary controversy in France. Not only is it related to the use of AI in a literary work, but also to the reliability of the programs used to detect whether a text was written by an artificial intelligence program or by a human. An anonymous account claimed in mid-September that, according to Pangram - considered one of

The Goncourt candidate accused of writing with AI: "It's cruel, they cast doubt on my humanity"
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El Pais
The writer Thélyson Orélien denies having used AI in his novel 'C’était ça ou mourir', excluded from the Goncourt Prize, but admits prior plagiarism

The Haitian-Canadian defends authorship of his best-known work of fiction, though in a letter he explains that in the past he committed 'unacceptable errors'.

The writer Thélyson Orélien denies having used AI in his novel 'C’était ça ou mourir', excluded from the Goncourt Prize, but admits prior plagiarism
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