Quebec publisher cuts ties with award-listed novelist accused of using AI
nordicinst · x · 2026-10-22
Prestigious Quebec publisher Les Éditions du Boréal has cut ties with novelist Thélyson Orélien, saying it won't reprint his breakout book "It Was Either That or Die" after finding evidence of AI use in early manuscript versions.
- The scandal also reached France: the Goncourt Academy pulled the novel from its shortlist, and French publisher Grasset hasn't commented.
- Orélien denies machine authorship ("not a single sentence of this book was created by a machine") but conceded using "research tools."
- The furor began when social media accounts ran AI-detection tools on the book, prompting soul-searching about AI's impact on writing.
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