Will AI write our books? Row over best seller fuels fear over future of literature • FRANCE 24

France still very much takes its literary prize giving season seriously. So when a Haitian-born Canadian writer was accused of infusing his best-selling breakout novel with artificial intelligence, it got ugly in a hurry. We’ll wade into the Thélyson Orelien affair with its subsequent accusations of racism, previous plagiarism by the author and doubts over the accuracy of AI verification tool Pangram. Here’s the thing: some still love the book. Is that problem? The scandal’s all the more heartbreaking for publishers that It Was Either That or Die sold 40-thousand copies since its release, this as book sales have collapsed dramatically since the commercial launch of ChatGPT four short years ago. And that begs an even broader question: most of humanity only started reading and writing in the past century. Is that period over already? Sure, future generations will know how to read street signs and subtitles on a video… but if we’re no longer stopping what we do to engage meaningfully with the written word, how will that change us all?
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