Canadian publisher Boréal cuts ties with novelist Thélyson Orélien over AI use in his novel
Les Éditions du Boréal announced the end of its professional relationship with Haitian-Canadian writer Thélyson Orélien after concluding that artificial intelligence was used in the writing of his novel "C'était ça ou mourir". An external analysis of all working versions found "traces of artificial intelligence tags in the metadata of some documents". The publisher had publicly backed the author a week earlier. The work, about migration, had been removed from the Prix Goncourt finalists after analyses with the Pangram detector.
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- Boréal ended its professional relationship with Thélyson Orélien after an external analysis of all versions of his novel
- The analysis found traces of AI tags in the metadata of some documents, according to the publisher
- The publisher acknowledged it does not know to what extent AI was used and that a definitive answer will probably never come
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