Boréal Cuts Ties With 38-Year-Old Thélyson Orélien After AI Traces Surface in Novel Drafts
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Updated · The Guardian · Oct 22
Boréal Cuts Ties With 38-Year-Old Thélyson Orélien After AI Traces Surface in Novel Drafts
1 articles · Updated · The Guardian · Oct 22
Summary
Boréal said Wednesday it ended its professional relationship with Thélyson Orélien after a new review confirmed AI was used in the writing process of C’était ça ou mourir.
Metadata analysis of draft files found AI tags in certain documents, the publisher said, after collecting working versions and hiring an outside party to examine them.
Boréal said it still cannot determine how extensively AI was used and that Orélien stopped providing further information after earlier efforts to prove his innocence proved inconclusive.
Orélien, 38, continued to deny machine-written text, saying AI was used only for historical research and foreign idioms, not for any sentence, structure or meaning in the novel.
The rupture deepens a scandal that already got the migration novel dropped from the Prix Goncourt list after Pangram tests indicated a 100% probability of computer-generated text, despite planned translations in more than 20 countries.