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Novelist Thélyson Orélien rejects AI claims after bestseller pulled from French prize list

Orelien was accused of using AI to write his French-language novel about migration, which was set to be translated in more than 20 countries
Orélien was accused of using AI to write his French-language novel about migration, which was set to be translated in more than 20 countries. © Joel Saget, AFP file photo

Thélyson Orélien, the Haitian-Canadian writer whose best-selling debut novel was pulled from the prestigious Goncourt prize list amid an AI uproar, said Tuesday "not a single sentence" had been written by a machine. He did, however, admit to "unacceptable mistakes" regarding accusations of plagiarism involving earlier works.

A top-selling Haitian-Canadian writer who was accused of using AI to write his breakthrough debut novel denied the allegations Tuesday in his first detailed response to the scandal, while acknowledging past plagiarism "mistakes".

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