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Canadian Author Withdraws from Prix Goncourt as AI Detection Tool Flags Debut Novel

de Volkskrant27 September · 07:022 hours ago

Haitian-Canadian poet and debut novelist Thélyson Orélien has withdrawn his novel C’était ça ou mourir from the Prix Goncourt competition after an anonymous X account used Pangram’s AI detector to claim the book was 100% generated by artificial intelligence. The plot is largely based on Orélien’s own flight from Haiti to Canada.

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