WorldPingWill AI write our books? Row over bestseller fuels fear over future of literature
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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.
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- Reported by France 24 and published Fri, 02 Oct 2026 07:28:03 UTC.
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