Description: The Académie Goncourt reportedly removed Canadian novelist Thélyson Orélien’s C'était ça ou mourir from the French literary prize's longlist, citing both newly surfaced plagiarism findings and analyses it said indicated the novel was likely largely AI-generated. Orélien denied using AI, while his publishers disputed or could not confirm the claim. The AI allegation originated after the Pangram detector reportedly flagged the novel as AI-generated.
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View all entitiesAlleged: Large language model developers and Chatbot developers developed an AI system deployed by Thélyson Orélien , Novelists , Chatbot users and Authors, which harmed Readers , publishers , Literary prize organizers , Epistemic integrity and Académie Goncourt.
Alleged implicated AI systems: Large language models and Chatbots
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Incident ID
1726
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2026-09-25
Editors
Daniel Atherton
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The Prix Goncourt, France's most prestigious literary award, has removed a Canadian novel from this year's longlist after reviewing allegations that author Thélyson Orélien used AI to write it and saying that his previous work included pass…
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