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Quebec author admits past plagiarism, denies AI use in novel

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Thélyson Orélien, a Quebec author, has acknowledged past instances of plagiarism but maintains he did not use artificial intelligence to write his recent novel "C’était ça ou mourir." The book faced scrutiny over claims it was created with AI assistance and concerns about copied passages in Orélien’s earlier works.

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Thélyson Orélien, a Quebec-based author, admitted on October 13, 2026, to plagiarism in some of his earlier works but denied using artificial intelligence (AI) for his acclaimed novel C’était ça ou mourir. The allegations against the book first emerged last month when an anonymous user shared screenshots from AI detection tool Pangram suggesting that the book was entirely generated by machines. Orélien, who began writing the novel in 2017 and completed a draft by 2019, maintains that he started his work long before widespread use of AI for writing, and no sentence was created by a machine. His publisher, Éditions du Boréal, released a statement where Orélien apologized for past mistakes but denied the AI claims. As a result, the prestigious French literature prize, the Académie Goncourt, removed C’était ça ou mourir from its selection list, and promotional activities by Éditions du Boréal were suspended.

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The Quebec author of an acclaimed novel has admitted there was plagiarism in some of his earlier work, but denies allegations that he used artificial intelligence to write his latest book. asserted

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The novel by Thélyson Orélien, C’était ça ou mourir, came under scrutiny last month over allegations of AI use, followed by other news reports that raised questions about passages in the author’s previous work. asserted

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