The Quebec publisher Boreal has ended its relationship with Haitian-Canadian novelist Thelyson Orelien after concluding that artificial intelligence was used in writing his best-selling novel, Al Jazeera reports.
Boreal said an outside analysis of draft versions of the book, known in French as "C'etait ca ou mourir", found traces of AI in the metadata of some documents. It said it could not tell how much AI had been used. Only last week the publisher had said it was standing by the 38-year-old, who it said later declined to provide further information.
The novel, about migration, had been due for translation in more than 20 countries but was removed from France's Goncourt prize shortlist after an AI-detection test. Mr Orelien has denied that any sentence was machine-written, saying he used tools only for research, and has suggested racism was behind the accusations.
Source: Al Jazeera
