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A copy of the book "C'etait ca ou mourir," a novel by author Thelyson Orelien, is displayed on a table inside a bookstore in Paris on Tuesday.
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Paris - Claims that Canadian-Haitian writer Thelyson Orelien used AI tools to write his best-selling debut novel are rocking the French literary world and posing questions about how AI can be detected. An X account with a handful of followers sparked the controversy by claiming that the AI-detecting program Pangram had concluded the tale of a Haitian migrant traveling to Canada had been largely written by a text-generator such as Claude or ChatGPT. Orelien, 38, denies the allegations and has said he will prove that he wrote the book, which has been sold to publishers in more than 20 countries. In a time of both misinformation and too much information, SUBSCRIBE NOW
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