Novelist Thélyson Orélien rejects AI claims after bestseller pulled from French prize list
Thélyson Orélien, the Haitian-Canadian writer whose best-selling debut novel was pulled from the prestigious Goncourt prize list amid an AI uproar, said…
France 24 reports: Thélyson Orélien, the Haitian-Canadian writer whose best-selling debut novel was pulled from the prestigious Goncourt prize list amid an AI uproar, said Tuesday "not a single sentence" had been written by a machine.
He did, however, admit to "unacceptable mistakes" regarding accusations of plagiarism involving earlier works.
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