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Winner of the Prix Goncourt literary prize, Philippe Jaenada, admits to using AI. The prize earlier removed Canadian-Haitian author, Thélyson Orélien, due to allegations of AI use. “So when it’s an old white man it’s fine, but when it’s a young writer of colour he gets stoned in the public square?”


Philippe Jaenada told French radio that he used ChatGPT to ‘play with the reader’, after the prize removed a different book from its longlist over allegations of AI use

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