{"id":25118,"date":"2026-09-25T17:37:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T15:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/25\/novelist-accused-of-using-ai-to-write-book-removed-from-french-prize-list\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T17:37:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T15:37:15","slug":"novelist-accused-of-using-ai-to-write-book-removed-from-french-prize-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/25\/novelist-accused-of-using-ai-to-write-book-removed-from-french-prize-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Novelist accused of using AI to write book removed from French prize list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Th\u00e9lyson Or\u00e9lien had been in the running to win a top literary prize before the AI claim emerged on social media<\/p>\n<p>The organisers of France\u2019s most prestigious literary prize said they had removed a critically acclaimed novel by a Canadian-Haitian writer from the longlist after an anonymous online account claimed the book was \u201calmost entirely\u201d written by AI.<\/p>\n<p>The Acad\u00e9mie Goncourt, a Paris-based literary organisation, said on Friday its decision to withdraw Th\u00e9lyson Or\u00e9lien\u2019s novel C\u2019\u00e9tait \u00e7a ou mourir (It Was That or Die) was \u201cdriven by the desire to preserve the integrity of the Goncourt prize and the academy itself, whose central role is to promote and honour literature written by women and men\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2026\/sep\/25\/thelyson-orelien-goncourt-prize-france\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/805a53985eeaa5d325b415cdf6ae98f6c248b5b3\/624_0_6240_4994\/master\/6240.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=1fdf100b2167842b6ad6758568e180c7\" title=\"Novelist accused of using AI to write book removed from French prize list\" \/>Th\u00e9lyson Or\u00e9lien had been in the running to win a top literary prize before the AI claim emerged on social media<br \/>\nThe organisers of France\u2019s most prestigious literary prize said they had removed a critically acclaimed novel by a Canadian-Haitian writer from the longlist after an anonymous online account claimed the book was \u201calmost entirely\u201d written by AI.<br \/>\nThe Acad\u00e9mie Goncourt, a Paris-based literary organisation, said on Friday its decision to withdraw Th\u00e9lyson Or\u00e9lien\u2019s novel C\u2019\u00e9tait \u00e7a ou mourir (It Was That or Die) was \u201cdriven by the desire to preserve the integrity of the Goncourt prize and the academy itself, whose central role is to promote and honour literature written by women and men\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Th\u00e9lyson Or\u00e9lien had been in the running to win a top literary prize before the AI claim emerged on social media The organisers of France\u2019s most prestigious literary prize said they had removed a critically acclaimed novel by a Canadian-Haitian writer from the longlist after an anonymous online account claimed the book was \u201calmost entirely\u201d &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/25\/novelist-accused-of-using-ai-to-write-book-removed-from-french-prize-list\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Novelist accused of using AI to write book removed from French prize list<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":25119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25118"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}