The AI-Related Plagiarism Crisis in Literature
Context:
Canadian-Haitian novelist Thélyson Orélien was removed from the prestigious Prix Goncourt longlist after claims surfaced that his novel was largely generated using artificial intelligence.
Members of the media may directly contact the following experts:
Maxime Prévost (English & French)
Full Professor and Interim Chair, Department of French, Faculty of Arts
Professor Prévost specializes in 19th-century literary culture and the relationship between literature and popular culture.
“Faced with texts generated by artificial intelligence, the publishing world and literary critics are discovering, very abruptly, the world that literature professors have inhabited since 2023.”
Patrick Imbert (French and English)
Distinguished Professor, Faculty of Arts; Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
Professor Imbert specializes in discourse analysis (press, literature), Canadian studies, postmodernism, and 19th- and 20th-century Quebec and French literature.
“This is not a matter of plagiarism. Artificial intelligence is profoundly transforming academic research and literary creation by providing unprecedented access to the entirety of available knowledge, which now requires researchers and writers to distinguish themselves through their capacity for innovation, creativity, and exploration of the limits of knowledge rather than through the mere accumulation of information.”